单词 | incognito |
释义 | incognitoadj.adv.n. A. adj. a. Unknown; whose identity is concealed or unavowed, and therefore not taken as known; concealed under a disguised or assumed character. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.adv.n.1638 |
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