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発音

• IPA^(key): /bɹiːɡ/
• 韻: -iːɡ

名詞

brigue (複数形 brigues)

1. (obsolete) Intrigue; secretive machinations.
   • October 9 1749, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774

     the rise and decay of the Papal power , the politics of that Court , the Brigues of the Cardinals , the tricks of the Conclaves

動詞

brigue (三人称単数 現在形 brigues, 現在分詞 briguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 brigued)

1. (obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
   • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 45:

     [W]e think it very unbecoming our Prudence, that the Determination ſhould be remitted to the Authors themſelves; when our Adversaries, by Briguing and Caballing, have cauſed so univerſal a Defection from us, that the greater Part of our Society has already deſerted to them, [...]