单词 | regardable |
释义 | regardableadj. 1. Worthy of being regarded; noticeable.Common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice specialc1405 eminentc1420 markablec1449 noteworthy1552 regardable1572 respectable1584 of —— observation1587 considerable1589 of (great, little, etc.) mark1590 signal1591 remarkable1593 conspicuous1604 noble1604 observative1608 observable1609 significant1642 noteful1644 signalized1652 tall1655 curious1682 notice-worthy1713 unco1724 noticeable1793 handsome1813 epoch-forming1816 measurable1839 epochal1857 epoch-making1863 era-making1894 epoch-marking1895 high profile1950 landmark1959 1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth ii. f. 169 Speaking seuerally of the most number of them, whose iudgements are regardable. 1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos Ded., in Complaints sig. T2v Nor for name or kindreds sake by you vouchsafed, beeing also regardable. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 144 Generally, it is more regardable for profit, then commendable for pleasure. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 261 Seeing these objects to be unworthy and not regardable. 1677 S. Speed Prison-pietie 101 While thou'rt absent, nothing can Be regardable in man; Nothing can he act but ill. 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. vi. 321 These mean and ignoble essences,..the less regardable pieces of his workmanship. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying If instead of squaring the half feet, you square the half yards.., and work with them, you will attain the same end without any regardable difference. 1785 Hist. York II. 293 A circumstance not regardable by any but a true antiquary. 1827 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Sept. 393 I will pray that no creature may seem more regardable or necessary to you than it is. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Sept. The CIA has entered the lives of even the least regardable of us Europeans. 1995 Ukiah (Calif.) Daily Jrnl. 15 Dec. 3/2 In a movie like this, skill and talent can only take you so far, and then the camera is sitting there and regarding you, and you had better be regardable, or the cause is lost. 2. That may be viewed or perceived as. ΚΠ 1846 H. H. Dobney Script. Doctr. of Future Punishment (ed. 2) ii. vii. 236 He ought not to say that the punitive destruction of the wicked at some future period is regardable as an act of kindness. 1903 Polit. Sci. Q. Mar. 93 Again the figures given as rental value often include payments not strictly regardable as rent. 1959 Condor 61 238 Some smaller species of sandpipers..are also widely distributed and regardable as common. 2006 Philosophy 81 572 Such relations are not themselves plausibly reducible to or regardable as tropes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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