单词 | suppute |
释义 | supputev. Now rare. transitive. To reckon, calculate, compute. Cf. supputate v. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > calculate or solve [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE calcule1377 numbera1382 accounta1387 casta1400 calk1401 computate1449 suppute?a1475 reckona1513 to cast up1539 yield1542 supputate1555 practise?a1560 calculate1570 compute1579 work1582 quantulate1610 resolve1613 find1714 to work out1719 solve1737 to figure out1854 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 37 Þe Romanes..ascribede theire yeres from the begynnenge of theire cite y-made. But..Cristen men suppute [L. supputarunt] theire yeres from the Incarnacion of Criste. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 453 Men supputenge [L. supputantibus] tymes of kynges. 1638 H. Hexam tr. S. Marolois & A. Girard Art Fortification 15 To resolue this question, ye must suppute from the triangle CBG, the lines CG, GB, and ye shall haue GB the second flanke. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. xiv. 148 If we suppute the quantity of Peaches which every Peach-tree may reasonably yield at the end of five or six years, we may expect..at least five or six thousand Peaches. 1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 ii. 804 The dates visible on these coins were supputed according to the latter epoch of Sidon. 1894 Speaker 31 Mar. 368/2 His portrait, showing the long wooden upper lip..and the chin with a deep hole in it, calls for no Lavater to suppute the inner man at a glance or two. 1904 Belgium, its Institut., Industries & Commerce (Belgium Dept. Indust. & Labour) 5 It follows from the census of 1900, that, out of the 6,693,548 persons supputed, only 212,474 were born in foreign countries. 1955 Classical Philol. 50 127/1 The great banker, who was also a publisher, would have smiled upon this pair of massive volumes, not without supputing the cost in money and effort. Derivatives suˈpputed adj. also figurative rare. ΚΠ 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxix. 159 Free from this supputed shame. 1965 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 85 599/1 The work begins with a series of loosely related studies of various obscure or supputed kinship terms from the Vedic period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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