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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈteɪʃən/

名詞

spectation (uncountable)

1. (archaic, rare) Regard; aspect; appearance.
   • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:

     This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.

2. (rare) The act of watching something; observation.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 34:

     the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner […]

Further reading

• spectation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• constipate, copatients