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spectate, v.|spɛkˈteɪt|
[f. L. spectāt-, ppl. stem of spectāre to look.]
1. intr. and trans. To look or gaze (at).
1709[implied at spectating ppl. a. and vbl. n. below]. 1854De Quincey in ‘H. A. Page’ Life (1877) II. xviii. 88 The thing to be spectated, or in base vulgar, the spectacle.
2. intr. [Back-formation from spectator.] To be a spectator rather than a participant, esp. at a sporting event.
1929Amer. Speech IV. 501 An advertisement in an Iowa paper reads: ‘Ladies Only at the Promenade Roller Rink Thursday afternoon, 2:30 to 5. No men will be allowed to skate or to spectate.’ 1971H. C. Rae Marksman ii. iii. 118 On Sunday afternoons..the boys meet and play soccer... Occasionally Gordon went there, to play or to spectate. I'm not sure which. 1974‘P. B. Yuill’ Bornless Keeper xiii. 125 He enjoyed spectating at a good snarling-match. 1980L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 90/2 They..provide entertainment for the Prep women who spectate when they're not flinging a ball about themselves.
Hence specˈtating ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1709in Ashton Social Life Reign Q. Anne (1882) I. 287 A Gentleman sitting on the Coach, civilly salutes the Spectating Company. 1858De Quincey Wks. VII. App. 329 To the poor spectator (unless paid for spectating) [it] is sympathetically painful. 1942Amer. Speech XVII. 24 ‘Tackle the shoe problem—shoes for spectating’ was the heading of an advertisement of a Department Store, Oct. 11, 1941. 1966Listener 12 May 697/2 Only a gigantic comic talent..could..communicate the comic grandeur to a spectating, as opposed to a reading, audience. 1978D. Francis Trial Run xix. 234 I'd ridden in races in that state..so why fret at some gentle spectating. |