opacateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈəʊpəkeɪt/

動詞

opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)

1. (archaic) To darken; to cloud. [from 1660]
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:

     […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.

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参照

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

アナグラム

• pea coat, peacoat