ominateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɒmɪneɪt/

動詞

ominate (third-person singular simple present ominates, present participle ominating, simple past and past participle ominated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To be an omen for (something); to foreshow, to presage.
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:

     A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellovvſhippe by nature, vvhereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes vvas predeſtinate to thee from thy ſvvadling clothes.

   • 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Second Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph I, page 171:

     I vviſh Philotheus no vvorſe ſucceſs then he had yesterday. But I cannot ominate ſo vvell touching this Congreſs.

関連する語

• abominate
• omination
• preominate

参照

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

アナグラム

• Maniote, amniote, iomante