| 释义 |
expunct, v.|ɛkˈspʌŋkt|
[f. L. expunct- ppl. stem of expungĕre: see expunge.]
trans. = expunge. Cf. next.
1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick. viii. (1639) 452 These simples be withdrawn and expuncted out of that Electuary. 1847Madden Laȝamons Brut I. 127 Written at first ældade, and the a subsequently expuncted. Ibid. III. 460 The ancient scribes, who often in such cases expunct the superfluous letter. 1868Skeat Havelok 21 note, The MS. has ‘ig’, but the g is expuncted. 1908― in N. & Q. 10th Ser. IX. 116/1 The scribe first of all copied ‘ætheredes’ as ‘Atheredys’,..and after that he..divided it as ‘At heredys’, and then, by expuncting h, produced ‘At eredys’. |