spectatev.
/spɛkˈteɪt/, U.S. /spɛkˈteɪt/ 1. intransitive and transitive. To look or gaze (at).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look or behold
belookeOE
lookeOE
beseec1000
stareOE
showOE
beholdc1175
seec1225
heedc1275
witec1320
advisec1325
to see to ——a1375
rewarda1382
to cast an eye, glance, lookc1385
blush?a1400
glift?a1400
visea1400
considerc1400
vizy1513
regard1523
spectate1709
to have a see1839
look-see1862
vision1898
screw1905
shufti1943
to take (or have) a shufti1943
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at or behold
to look to ——eOE
showeOE
lookeOE
lookOE
behold971
beseec1000
seeOE
to see on ——OE
yseeOE
yseeOE
belookc1175
to look against ——c1225
to lay eyes onc1230
biwaita1250
holde1303
aseea1325
to see upon ——a1350
rewardc1350
to look of ——?c1400
eyea1425
visage1450
aviewa1513
gove1513
regard1523
to look unto ——1545
respect1567
survise1600
aspect1610
reflect1611
inspeculate1694
spectate1709
to look for ——1786
deek1825
lookit1908
lamp1916
1709 [see spectating adj. and n. at Derivatives].
1854 T. De Quincey Let. 5 Dec. in ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings (1877) II. xviii. 88 The thing to be spectated, or in base vulgar, the spectacle.
2. intransitive. [Back-formation < spectator n.] To be a spectator rather than a participant, esp. at a sporting event.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate
to look onOE
to look upona1470
to keep the ring1798
to play the gallery1870
spectate1929
1929 Amer. Speech 4 501 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.’
1971 H. 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.
1980 L. 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.
Derivatives
specˈtating adj. and n.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking at or beholding > relating to
viewing1563
spectating1709
watching1902
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > looking at or beholding
beholdinga1225
considerationc1386
advisementa1393
aspecta1398
especcion14..
viewc1450
contemplationc1500
looking ona1516
viewing1548
eyeing1550
perspectionc1550
theoria1590
conspection1611
onlooking1637
spectation1638
aspection1646
prospecting1677
onlook1800
spectating1942
1709 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne (1882) I. 287 A Gentleman sitting on the Coach, civilly salutes the Spectating Company.
1857 T. De Quincey Select. Grave & Gay VII. App. 329 To the poor spectator (unless paid for spectating) [it] is sympathetically painful.
1942 Amer. Speech 17 24 ‘Tackle the shoe problem—shoes for spectating’ was the heading of an advertisement of a Department Store, Oct. 11, 1941.
1966 Listener 12 May 697/2 Only a gigantic comic talent..could..communicate the comic grandeur to a spectating, as opposed to a reading, audience.
1978 D. Francis Trial Run xix. 234 I'd ridden in races in that state..so why fret at some gentle spectating.
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