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形容詞

greate

1. Obsolete spelling of great.
   • 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure‎:

     He setteth the high and principall felicitie of man in pleasure, and thiketh that lyfe most pure and godly, whiche may haue greate delectatio and pleasure, and lytle pensiuenes.

   • c. 1592–1593 (date written), Thomas Nash[e], “The Choosing of Valentines”, in John S[tephen] Farmer, editor, The Choise of Valentines: Or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo […], London: Privately printed for subscribers only, published 1899, →OCLC, page 12, lines 133–136:

     Perhaps the sillie worme [the penis] is labour'd sore, / And wearied that it can doe noe more; / If it be so, as I am greate a-dread, / I wish tenne thousand times that I were dead.

   • 1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography‎:

     No more then if you should lay a fly vpon a smooth Cartwheele, or a pinnes head vpon a greate globe.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡræ͜ɑː.te/