Mureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /mjʊə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

名詞

mure (plural mures)

1. (obsolete) wall
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2870:

     Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
     Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in

2. (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

形容詞

mure (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

動詞

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
2. (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Therewith he mured up his mouth along,
     And therein shut up his blasphemous tong

   • a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)

     The five kings are mured in a cave.

参照

• Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

アナグラム

• Reum, Meru

語源

From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.

発音

• IPA: /miu̯r/

形容詞

mure

1. grave, serious, modest
2. (rare) mature, ripe

関連する語

• demure

参照

• “mūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

名詞

mūre

1. ablative singular of mūs
2. vocative singular of mūrus