abroachとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
  • 韻: -əʊtʃ

動詞

abroach (三人称単数 現在形 abroaches, 現在分詞 abroaching, 過去形および過去分詞形 abroached)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
   • 1633, George Herbert, The Agonie

     on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach

副詞

abroach (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]^[1]
   • 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115,^[1]

     Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 3, Chapter 11, p. 285,^[2]

     […] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.

2. (obsolete) In a state to be diffused or propagated. [First attested in the early 16^th century.]^[1]

   Synonyms: afoot, astir

   • c. 1593, [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed by Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, OCLC 55191490, [Act I, scene iii]:

     I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […]

     I do the wrong, and am the first to begin to quarrel. / The secret mischiefs that I set afoot, / I blame on others: […]

   • 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64,^[3]

     When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:

形容詞

abroach (not comparable)

1. Tapped; broached. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]^[1]
2. Astir; moving about. [First attested in the early 16^th century.]^[1]

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