英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɔː.kjʊ.peɪt/
• (General American) /ˈɔ.kjə.peɪt/
  • (cot–caught merger) /ˈɑ.kjə.peɪt/
• 韻: -ɔːkjʊpeɪt

動詞

aucupate (third-person singular simple present aucupates, present participle aucupating, simple past and past participle aucupated)

1. (obsolete) To hunt, to seek with vigilance.
   • 1601, William Percy, Mahomet and His Heaven:

     Now this is the howre, now this the half, now this is the Quarter, the Minute, the second, the third, the fourth, and so Fourth to the Tenth, that I do aucupate, or do gape after the slowe comming of my knave-booting Rascalls to Olympus with their venaisons alive

   • 1630, John Taylor, Workes:

     Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo, To aucupate great favors from Apollo.

   • 1831, The Westminster Review, volume 15, page 62:

     Except for the purpose of vain pageants, designed to aucupate benefices, by cajoling the patrons, the University of Oxford has long ceased to exist.