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单词 variegate
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variegatev.

Brit. /ˈvɛːrɪəɡeɪt/, /ˈvɛːrᵻɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈvɛr(i)əˌɡeɪt/
Forms: Also 1700s variagate.
Etymology: < Latin variegāt-, participial stem of variegāre to make varied or of divers colours, < varius various adj.
1.
a. transitive. To diversify; to invest with variety; to enliven with differences or changes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)]
diverse1340
diversify1490
diversificate1604
varify1606
variegate1653
vary1697
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme Ep. Ded. sig. A 3 The glorious Wisdom and Goodness of God so fairly drawn out and skilfully variegated in the sundry Objects of externall Nature.
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair Pref. Ancient and modern manners are mixed and jumbled together, to heighten the humour, or variegate the description.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 52 All the germs Of pain or pleasure, sympathy or hate, That variegate the eternal universe.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 122 The spectacle of the infinite diversities of religion, which variegate, but alas! do not beautify the world.
b. esp. To render varied in colour or appearance; to mark or cover with patches of different colours or objects.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > variegate [verb (transitive)]
chequer?a1400
fleckc1430
engrail1483
shoot1532
begary1538
intermingle1553
enchase1590
diaper1592
sinew1592
motley1602
intercolour1607
damask1610
particolour1610
inshade1613
freta1616
enamel1650
discolour1656
variegatea1728
jasper1799
intershoot1845
patchwork1853
pattern1898
strand1914
harlequin-
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 20 The Shells are filled with a white Spar, which variegates and adds to the Beauty of the Stone.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 620 The blended verdure of woodlands and of cultivated declivities..variegates the prospect in a charming manner.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 238 Where the British flag, variegated by the crosses of Saint George and Saint Andrew, hung by the side of the white flag of France.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 148 Lichens..variegate the monotonous gray with hues of yellow and red.
2. To vary by change or alteration. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)]
wharvec897
wendOE
i-wendeOE
awendOE
aturn?c1225
biwrixle?c1225
changec1225
turnc1225
shifta1325
vary1340
inchangea1382
strange1390
altera1398
alterate?a1425
permute?a1425
difference1481
renewc1515
alienate1534
wrixlec1540
to chop and change1557
variate1566
palter1587
permutate1598
immute1613
unmake1616
unsame1632
chop1644
veer1647
variegatea1690
refract1700
mutabilatea1704
commute1825
stranger1863
switch1919
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 371 Particulars are to be divided by a Mixture of Division of Species and Compound Surds, variegated as the Case requires.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 69 They were not in a savage state, when they first separated, and variegated their dialects, with so much religious care, and exact art.

Derivatives

ˈvariegating adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective]
sunderlyeOE
manifoldeOE
selcoutha1000
felefoldc1000
mislichOE
alkinOE
manykinOE
fele-kync1175
serekina1300
sundera1325
sundrya1325
serea1340
divers1340
varyingc1340
variantc1380
muchfoldc1384
serelepesa1400
serelepya1400
multifaryc1460
sundryfoldc1460
multiplicate?a1475
variable?a1475
sundrilyc1480
diversea1542
particoloured1591
multifarious1593
Protean1594
daedal1596
choiceful1605
Daedalian1605
multiplex1606
variated1608
diversified1611
multiplicious1617
variousa1634
multivarious1636
mosaic1644
multiple1647
omnigenous1650
chequered1656
plurifarious1656
ununiform1660
variate1677
disuniform1687
Proteusian1689
unsteady1690
unequable1693
inequable1721
variegating1727
varied1733
multitudinous1744
multifold1806
polygeneous1818
unequalized1822
ruleless1836
varicoloured185.
non-uniform1856
omnigener1857
polytypic1858
multiferous1860
variatious1871
variegated1872
polytypical1890
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 44 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Variegating, Confusing, or Reversing Tropes and Figures.
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