英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /diːˈpiːs/

動詞

depiece (三人称単数 現在形 depieces, 現在分詞 depiecing, 過去形および過去分詞形 depieced)

1. (まれに) To remove pieces from; to take apart, disassemble.
   • 1920, Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Lotus Press 2000, p. 180:

     Mind, being an action of the Infinite, depieces as well as aggregates ad infinitum.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 231:

     An ornate set of symbolically retaliatory tortures [...] proceeded with quasi-liturgical exactitude, climaxing in the efforts of four champing horses to pull Damiens's limbs out from his body (in a gruesome twist, his body stubbornly refused to be depieced, かつ had to be further chopped かつ battered by public executioner Sanson).