Benimとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• benimme, benime, benymme, bynemme (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 benimen, from 古期英語 beniman, from Proto-West Germanic *bineman, from Proto-Germanic *binemaną (“to take away”). Equivalent to be- (“off, away”) +‎ nim. Compare German benehmen.

発音

• 韻: -ɪm

動詞

benim (third-person singular simple present benims, present participle benimming, simple past benam, past participle benomen or benome or benumb)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To take away; rob; deprive; ravish [10th–16th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “viij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:

     And on the right hand were two flowers like a lily, and the one would have benome the others whiteness, but a good man departed them that the one touched not the other; and then out of every flower came out many flowers, and fruit great plenty.

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   • 1530, John Palsgrave, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Benombe of ones lymbes […]
     […] He is now benomme of his lymmes.

   • 1876, Henry Morley, “Illustrations of English religion”, in Chaucer:

     Alas ! it benimeth from man his wit and his reason, and all his debonaire life spiritual that should keep his soul. Certes it benimeth also God's due lordship (and that is man's soul) and the love of his neighbours : […]

   • 1900, Guillaume (de Lorris), Jean de Meun, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Romance of the Rose - Volume 2:

     To visit I should much prefer
     Some sick but wealthy usurer :
     With patience would I comfort him,
     In hope some deniers to benimme,
     And when pale death steals o'er his face,
     Transport him to the burial-place.

   • 1963, William Matthews, Later medieval English prose:

     […] by his name maketh clepe him and name him Rude Intendment hath made him an espier of ways and a waiter [waylayer] of pilgrims and will benim [rob] them their burdons and unscrip them of their scrips, beguiling them with lying words.

関連する語

• benimming
• benumb

アナグラム

• Mebin