scrutateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /skruːˈteɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /skruˈteɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

scrutate (third-person singular simple present scrutates, present participle scrutating, simple past and past participle scrutated)

1. (rare, transitive) To scrutinize, peruse, inspect, investigate (something). [from late 19th c.]
   • 1923 [1912], James J. Walsh, “Appendix III. III. Hysteria and Hypnotism”, in Psychotherapy:  […], New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, page 806:

     The only way to cure them is to refuse to show interest in them, discipline them properly, avoid coddling them in any way, do not foster their self pity, above all do not tell them how much rest they need or what interesting subjects they are, or invent some new method of scrutating their minds or of telling them that they were really not to blame and that it is their nature or heredity that is at fault, but insist on their doing things, for discipline is the word in the treatment of them.

   • 1995, John Lachs, The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, Nashville, London: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 251:

     Philosophers have too often thought that they can learn more about human nature by scrutating the murky depths of substance and faculties than by interpreting the obvious evidence.

   • 2024 February, Simon Dor, “Decoding and Foreseeing” (chapter I), in StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy, University of Michigan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 19:

     Scrutating a map in such details shows us that it is built around specific challenges to confront existing strategic habits.

関連する語

Further reading

• “scrutate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

参照

• "scrutate", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)