enhauncenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre.

The second /n/ is an unetymological excrescence.

発音

• IPA: /ɛnˈ(h)au̯nsən/, /ɛnˈ(h)ansən/, /an-/

動詞

enhauncen (third-person singular simple present enhaunceth, present participle enhauncende, enhauncynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle enhaunced)

1. To lift, heighten, or raise up.
2. To improve or promote someone:
   1. To extol or gladden; to give praise to.
   2. To honour; to give a high office or dignity.
   3. To provide with knowledge, wealth or power.
3. To feel conceited or vain; to have excessive pride.
4. (rare) To instill pride or vanity; to make vain.
5. (rare) To make (a source of sound) louder or more prominent.
6. (rare) To become wealthy or expensive.
7. (rare, astrology) To be influential (of a planet).

Conjugation

関連する語

• enhauncynge

派生した語

• English: enhance

参照

• “enhauncen, -ien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-12.