impaleとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French, from Medieval Latin impālāre, from Latin palus.

発音

• (Received 発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪl/
• 韻: -eɪl

動詞

impale (三人称単数 現在形 impales, 現在分詞 impaling, 過去形および過去分詞形 impaled)

1. (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
2. (transitive, heraldry) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
3. (transitive, intransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.
   • 1624, John Smith, “The Present Estate of New-Plimoth”, in John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: Printed by I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, OCLC 1049014009, book 6; republished as The Generall Historie of Virginia, [...], London: Printed by I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Edward Blackmore, 1632, OCLC 55196040, page 247:

     [T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.

同意語

• (pierce something with any long, pointed object): fix, stake, stick, run through, transfix
• (enclose または fence with stakes): pale, palisade, picket

派生語

• impaler