definementとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfaɪnmənt/

名詞

definement (複数形 definements)

1. The act of defining.
2. A definition or description.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorily would dizzy the arithmetic of memory.

参照

• definement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.