infameとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈfeɪm/
• Homophone: enfame (one pronunciation)

動詞

infame (third-person singular simple present infames, present participle infaming, simple past and past participle infamed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Empire”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

関連する語

• osculum infame

参照

• “infame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Famine, famine, imafen