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单词 incognito
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incognitoadj.adv.n.

/ɪnkɒɡˈniːtəʊ//ɪnˈkɒɡnɪtəʊ//ɪŋkɒɡˈniːtəʊ//ɪŋˈkɒɡnɪtəʊ/
Forms: Plural incogniti /-tiː/.
Etymology: < Italian incognito adjective, adverb, unknown, disguised, < Latin incognitus : see incognite adj.1652 H. Cogan tr. M. de Scudery Ibrahim i. ii. 39 He went..in that manner, which the Grandees of Italie do often make use of, whenas they travell, and which they call Incognito.
A. adj.
a. Unknown; whose identity is concealed or unavowed, and therefore not taken as known; concealed under a disguised or assumed character.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective]
disguisyc1330
disguised1393
visured1577
latent1593
misguised1603
palliate1611
bemasked1620
dissembled1631
travested1656
incognito1676
incog1705
counterfeit1724
unconfessed1743
Waltham1748
camouflaged1918
the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] > incognito
incognita1671
incognito1676
incog1705
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i. 61 A Fool is very troublesome when he Presumes he is Incognito.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 70 This prince was incognito in Arabia.
1864 M. B. Smedley Linnet's Trial I. i. iii. 72 I only came for a couple of days..and I intended to have remained incognito.
b. Of a thing: Done or conducted under disguise.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective] > done under disguise
incognito1819
1819 T. Hope Anastasius (1820) II. ii. 30 Asses for incognito expeditions.
B. adv.
With one's real name, title, or character undisclosed or disguised: used esp. in reference to royal or dignified personages who wish to conceal their identity or not to be openly recognized.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adverb]
under covert1477
cloakedlya1500
disguisedly1631
umbrageouslya1649
incognito1649
wrappingly1649
incog1709
the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adverb] > incognito
incognito1649
incog1709
1649 J. Evelyn Mem. 12 July Mr. Arthur Slingsby, who left England incognito.
1691 T. Rogers Disc. Trouble of Mind 384 A Christian in this World is like a King that travels Incognito in a strange land.
1709 M. Prior Ladle in Poems 2 The Scepticks think 'twas long ago Since Gods came down Incognito.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 10 As you wished to do good incognito, I did not disclose your name.
1862 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury II. iii. 211 He had passed incognito through Canterbury.
C. n.
1. An unknown man; one who conceals his identity; an anonymous person.
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the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > one whose name is unknown
unknownc1390
anonymous1551
incognito1638
anon.1683
anonym1683
anonym.1683
anonymity1695
incog1699
incognitaa1723
ineffable1859
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > one who disguises
concealerc1430
disguiser1586
incognito1638
masquerader1676
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 228 I send you all I have of that admirable Incognito…I cannot for my life find who he is.
1784 W. Cowper Let. 22 Feb. (1981) II. 217 The same Incognito to all except ourselves made us his almoners this year likewise.
1799 E. Dubois Piece Family Biogr. II. 81 This for the incogniti.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 199 This young incognito.
2. The condition of being unknown, anonymity; fictitious character; disguise; originally in phrase in incognito (taken as Latin or Italian), in concealment, in an anonymous character.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun]
anonymousness1802
namelessness1805
anonymity1820
incognito1822
nobodiness1886
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > disguised condition
disguisea1400
shape1597
disguisedness1615
in the serving ofa1616
dissimulation1671
incog1813
incognito1822
1663 A. Cowley Of Obscurity in Ess. in Verse & Prose I think..that the pleasantest condition of life is in incognito.
c1669 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 12 The Prince of Thuscany..being in incognito.]
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. v. 95 Never venturing out of their imposing and mysterious incognito.
1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 17 Few writers would have preserved their incognito so long.
1886 W. Alexander St. Augustine's Holiday 9 Proving that chance is God's incognito.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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