upswarmとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

upswarm (三人称単数 現在形 upswarms, 現在分詞 upswarming, 過去形および過去分詞形 upswarmed)

1. (transitive) To rise in a swarm.
2. (intransitive) To cause to rise in a swarm.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 4, scene 2]:

     And both against the Peace of Heauen, and him,
     Haue here vp-swarmed them.

   • 1791, Homer; W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 779243096:

     Such was his exhortation; they his voice
     All hearing, with close-order'd ranks direct
     Bore on the barrier, and upswarming show'd
     On the high battlement their glittering spears