单词 | variegate |
释义 | variegatev. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1653 |
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