单词 | expunct |
释义 | expunctv. transitive. = expunge v. Cf. expunction n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > writing, etc. deface1340 razea1393 blot1530 to put out1530 delete1540 dispunct1570 obliterate1578 expunct1596 expunge1602 erase1605 dele1612 dispunge1622 retrench1645 liturate1656 excise1663 to scratch out1712 efface1737 extrapolate1831 1596 P. Barrough Method of Phisick (ed. 3) viii. 457 These simples bee withdrawen and expuncted out of that Electuary. 1847 F. Madden Laȝamon's Brut I. 127 Written at first ældade, and the a subsequently expuncted. 1847 F. Madden Laȝamon's Brut III. 460 The ancient scribes, who often in such cases expunct the superfluous letter. 1868 W. W. Skeat Havelok 21 (note) The MS. has ‘ig’, but the g is expuncted. 1908 W. W. Skeat in Notes & Queries 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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1596 |
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