ostent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.
2. isim A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation.

   “Vſe all the obſeruance of ciuility, / Like one well ſtudied in a ſad oſtent / To pleaſe his Grandam, neuer truſt me more.”

3. isim A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.
4. isim A portent, a token.

   “We ask'd of God that some ostent might clear / Our cloudy business, who gave us sign.”

5. isim One sixtieth of an hour: a minute (60 seconds).

   “As listed in the Oxford English Dictionary under atom, the hour in the table of Papias contained either 5 points, 10 minutes, 15 parts, 40 moments, 60 ostents, [or] 480 ounces[…]”