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語源 1

From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostentāre (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostendere (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tendere (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of ostentate.

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ostent (third-person singular simple present ostents, present participle ostenting, simple past and past participle ostented)

(ambitransitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.

Synonyms: (transitive) demonstrate, display, ostentate, manifest

Synonyms: (intransitive) exhibitionize, ostentate, preen, strut; see also Thesaurus:show off

語源 2

From Latin ostentus (“a display, exhibition, show”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.

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ostent (plural ostents)

(archaic, rare) A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  
  Vſe all the obſeruance of ciuility, / Like one well ſtudied in a ſ ad oſtent / To pleaſe his Grandam, neuer truſt me more.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
  
  Be merry, and employ your cheefeſt thoughts / To Courtſhip, and ſuch faire oſ tents of loue, / As ſ hall conueniently become you there.
- 1891, Walt Whitman, “2d Annex. Good-Bye my Fancy: Shakespere-Bacon’s Cipher”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 412:
  
  In every object, mountain, tree and star—In every birth and life, / As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent, / A mystic cipher waits infolded.
A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.

語源 3

From Middle French ostente (“amazing or marvellous thing; prodigy, wonder”) or directly from its etymon Latin ostentum (“portent”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.

The plural form ostenta is from Latin ostenta.

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ostent (plural ostents or ostenta)

(archaic, rare) A portent, a token.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
  
  We ask 'd of God that some ostent might clear / Our cloudy business, who gave us sign.
  
  The spelling has been modernized.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  
  Latinus, frighted with this dire ostent, / For counsel to his father Faunus went,

語源 4

Perhaps from Latin ostentum.

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ostent (plural ostents)

(obsolete or historical) One sixtieth of an hour: a minute (60 seconds).
- 1926 [????], Roger Bacon, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi..., page 291:
  
  […] one would be inclined to suspect some confusion in Bede 's information, seeing that 40 moments and 60 ostents both are equal to an hour. I cannot find an example of the use of ostentum as a measure of time before Bede, and it is first used as one-sixtieth of an hour in 978 A.D. by Alcuin, who knows a double use.
  
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2010 November 1, Samuel L. Macey, The Dynamics of Progress: Time, Method, and Measure, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 17:
  
  As listed in the Oxford English Dictionary under atom, the hour in the table of Papias contained either 5 points, 10 minutes, 15 parts, 40 moments, 60 ostents, [or] 480 ounces […]

使用する際の注意点

Distinguished in medieval times from the "minute" that was one tenth of an hour, or six modern minutes.

参照

^ “† ostent, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.
^ “ostent, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.
↑ “ostent, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.

アナグラム

notest, Totnes, teston, Stoten, Ettons, Teston, Tetons, Ottens

[1] “† ostent, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.

[2] “ostent, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.

[OED-3] “ostent, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.

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