obtestとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɒbˈtɛst/

動詞

obtest (三人称単数 現在形 obtests, 現在分詞 obtesting, 過去形および過去分詞形 obtested)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To implore, beseech, plead, beg.
2. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To call on a witness (often God) to confirm that something is true.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, lines 149–152, page 542:

     Now Suppliants, from Laurentum ſent, demand
     A Truce, with Olive Branches in their hand.
     Obteſt his Clemency, and from the Plain
     Beg leave to draw the Bodies of their ſlain.

関連する語

• obtestation