scruple
英語
編集発音
編集名詞
編集scruple (複数 scruples)
- (廃語, 単位) スクループル、薬剤の重量単位、1scruple=20grain=1/3dram≒1.296g
- 類義語: s.ap.
- (廃語) ごく少量。
- (古用法) 疑わしさ、疑念、良心のとがめ。躊躇。
- He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. - Thomas Babington Macaulay John Bunyan Encyclopædia Britannica - Eighth edition. 1854
- その嗜好と良心の呵責との葛藤により彼は惨めに気持ちにさせられた。
- He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. - Thomas Babington Macaulay John Bunyan Encyclopædia Britannica - Eighth edition. 1854
- (時間, 単位) ヘブライ文化における時間の単位、1時間=1080 scruples
派生語
編集動詞
編集scruple (三単現: scruples, 現在分詞: scrupling, 過去形: scrupled, 過去分詞: scrupled )
- (自動詞) 気がとがめる。
- We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. - Thomas Fuller.
- Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. - Robert South.
- 疑念を抱く。
- Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - John Milton.
- (廃語) 疑う。
- I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
- 疑いを生じさせる。
- Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.