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单词 appertise
释义

appertiseappertysen.

Etymology: < Old French appertise, -artise (modern apertise ), < apert open, manifest: see apert adj. 4.
Obsolete.
Open display, proof, or evidence of dexterity, skill, or valour, esp. in arms.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > display of skill
appertise1480
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > [noun] > display of skill
appertise1480
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xi. xxii He was wyse, dyscrete, and ful of al appertyse.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 8 None durst..withstonde his appertyse in armes.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ix. 24 Grete appertyses of armes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

appertiseappertyseadj.

Etymology: < Old French aperti, plural -is , ‘skilful,’ past participle of apertir to render ‘apert’: see apert adj. 4, and appertise n. (Badly spelt with final -e.)
Obsolete. rare.
Skilful, adroit, of ready wit.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective]
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hagherc1175
slyc1175
skilful1338
cunning1382
subtlec1390
subtilea1393
appertise1484
sleighta1513
practicatec1550
skilled1552
right-sided1575
canny1628
skilly1768
Oorlam1881
heads up1913
shit-hot1942
multi-skill1970
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxxxiii. 175 The most appertyse and wyse fynd them self..by suche delynge mocked and blamed.
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