semblableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛmbləbəl/

形容詞

semblable (comparative more semblable, superlative most semblable) (obsolete)

1. Apparent.
2. Conformable.
3. Similar.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, “Why Gentlemen in this Present Tyme be Nat Equall in Doctryne to the Auncient Noble Men”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC, 1st boke, folio 43, recto:

     [C]ompare his [Henry I of England's] lyfe with his two bretherne, william, called Rouſe [William II of England], and Robert le courtoiſe [Robert Curthose], they both nat hauyng ſẽblable lernyng with the ſayd Henry, […]

派生語

• semblability
• semblably
• semblance

名詞

semblable (plural semblables)

1. (obsolete) something similar; likeness; representation
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 115-120:

     […] but in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul
     of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness
     as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his
     mirror, and who else would trace him his umbrage,
     nothing more.