单词 | ostentate |
释义 | † ostentateadj. Obsolete. rare. Boasted of, vaunted; ostentatiously displayed. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > ostentatiously displayed show1573 ostentate1615 paraded1855 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 53 Like the speckled innocency of the Papists, in their ostentate charity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). ostentatev. Now rare. 1. a. transitive. To make a show of; to show off; to display ostentatiously or boastfully. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display of [verb (transitive)] flourishc1380 show1509 ostent1531 ostentatec1540 to ruffle it1551 to brave out1581 vaunt1590 boasta1592 venditate1600 to make the most ofa1627 display1628 to make (a) parade of1656 pride1667 sport1684 to show off1750 flash1785 afficher1814 affiche1817 parade1818 flaunt1822 air1867 showboat1937 ponce1953 rock1987 c1540 Resignation Northampton Priory in M. Prance Addit. Narr. 36 Christs Holy Evangely, which..wee did ostentate and openly devant to keepe most exactly. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) Pref. sig. B5v The citing of mine Authors so particularly..was not to ostentate, and make shew of mine owne reading. 1676 Doctr. of Devils 181 He was not for extravagant Rambles, as most Criticks are; Vain-gloriously to ostentate their great Reading, and Subtile Conjectures, upon small, or no occasions. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. v. 36/2 This proud Thraso would in his Preaching Ostentate Skill in Latin, and in Greek. 1876 J. N. Larned Talks about Labor 125 It is a case of..consumption to ostentate the power to consume. 1889 American 21 Dec. 192/1 San Marco..ostentates upon the upper portion of its façade all the florid detail of the Venetian manner. 1909 Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 3/4 So did she also desire it for peoples of the earth, ostentating among her blazons the legitimate title of destroyer of human slavery. 1988 R. Porter & D. Porter In Sickness & in Health xi. 191 Society insisted that it was bad form to ostentate one's sickness unnecessarily. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 323 Let not him that is Head of a Faction, ostentate too much. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxiv. 249 Merchants were enabled to vie and ostentate with the better sort of lairds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > show to the sight [verb (transitive)] to set beforea1000 openOE showlOE to put forth?c1225 kithe1297 to make (a) showing ofc1330 presenta1398 representa1398 to lay forthc1420 splayc1440 discovera1450 advisea1500 to set to (the) show?1510 to stall out1547 outlay1555 exhibit1573 strew1579 wray1587 displaya1616 ostentate1630 elevate1637 re-exhibita1648 expound1651 unveil1657 subject1720 flare1862 skin1873 patent1889 showcase1939 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 37 Not ostentating himselfe to publike view, but living recluse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1615v.c1540 |
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