peiseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /peɪz/, /piːz/
• 韻: -eɪz, -iːz
• 異形同音異義語: peas, pease, pays

動詞

peise (三人称単数 現在形 peises, 現在分詞 peising, 過去形および過去分詞形 peised)

1. (obsolete) To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
2. (obsolete, figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
3. (obsolete, figuratively) To weigh down, retard

名詞

peise (複数形 peises)

1. (obsolete, dialectal, UK) A weight; a poise.
   • c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “(please specify the passus number)”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, OCLC 837479643:

     To weigh pence with a peise.

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2. (obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto ii:

     Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.