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单词 compear
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compearv.

Brit. /kəmˈpɪə/, U.S. /kəmˈpɪ(ə)r/, Scottish English /kəmˈpir/
Forms: Middle English–1600s compere, Middle English–1700s compeir, (1500s ? compare, 1600s compeer), 1500s– compear.
Etymology: < French compar-oir (present tense, now obsolete, compere ) to appear formally before a tribunal < Latin compārēre to be present, appear, < com- together, with + pārēre to appear. Compare appear v.
Scottish.
1. To appear, make one's appearance, present oneself, show one's face, esp. at a formal assembly.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > make an appearance
atewOE
splaya1400
compearc1470
to come ona1635
exhibit1656
to figure in1812
show your shapes1828
to show one's neb (also nose, etc.)1841
surface1961
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxxvii. i On ye morowe Galaad & other knightes Afore the kynge by one assent compered.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 320 All the princis of the ciete comperit to this convencioun.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xii. vi. f. 175v/2 Ylk man began to feir his life, and durst nocht compeir quhare Makbeth was.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Navigatioun 136 Our Maister soon his lyttil vhissell cheird; His mariners incontinent compeird.
a1661 Marquis of Argyll Will in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 29/2 Requesting them..to compeer suddenly in this kingdom.
2. spec. Scots Law. To appear in a court, as a party to a cause, either in person or by counsel.
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?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1158 in Poems (1981) 47 Schir Scheip, I charge the straitly to compeir.
1564 J. Spottiswood et al. Let. 10 Feb. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 206 Summon charge and warn, the foresaid Anne to compere before the said Superintendants.
1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §38 Procuratours may compeir for all persons accused.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. ii. 3 We must all compeare before the judgment seat of Christ.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. ii. xxviii But what shall steer The erring senses? where shall they compear In controversie?
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 449 The Prince of Orange, being cited and not compearing, his Estate and Lands ar seised on.
1786 in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) I. 179 Compeared Walter Scott and presented an indenture dated 31st March last entered into between him and Walter Scott his son.
1865 Daily Tel. 8 July At Glasgow the twenty-second day of March eighteen hundred and sixty-five years. In presence of Sir Archibald Alison, Baronet, advocate, Sheriff of Lanarkshire. Compeared a prisoner, who..declares and says, etc.
3. ‘To appear, to be made manifest’ (Jamieson).
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1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) 90 (Jam.) The tressoun aganis thaime comparit..that he wes condampnit to de.

Derivatives

compearing n. and adj.
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1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. viii. 178 These circumstances might serve the more to justify Ambrose his not compearing.
1891 N.E.D. at Compear Mod. Sc. Law. The compearing defender.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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