单词 | dispunct |
释义 | † dispunctadj. Obsolete. rare. The reverse of punctilious; impolite, discourteous. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] rudec1400 rudishc1450 discourteous1561 uncivil1596 incivila1616 dispunct1616 indiscreet1727 impolite1739 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iii, in Wks. I. 240 Aso. I faith, Master, Let's goe..Let's bee retrograde. Amo. Stay. That were dispunct to the ladies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). dispunctv. rare. transitive. To mark with points or pricks of the pen; hence: a. To mark for erasure or omission. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > writing, etc. deface1340 razea1393 blot1530 to put out1530 delete1540 dispunct1570 obliterate1578 expunct1596 expunge1602 erase1605 dele1612 dispunge1622 retrench1645 liturate1656 excise1663 to scratch out1712 efface1737 extrapolate1831 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 831/2 I desire the reader then so to take me, as though I do not here deale withall, nor speake of the matter, but vtterly to haue pretermitted, and dispuncted the same. b. To mark for distinction, to distinguish. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > identify or distinguish [verb (transitive)] to take knowledge ofa1400 character1555 distinguish1600 characterizea1602 remark1633 identify1675 stamp1837 dispunct1842 keynote1877 finger1945 1842 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 20/1 All beyond Carthage, as Mauritania, &c.,..being dispuncted by no great states or colonies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1616v.1570 |
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