smatter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (someone or something) dirty; to bespatter, to soil.

   “To ſay the Ieſuites are all ſmattred vvith Atheiſme, I vvill not: and to ſay, that any of them all are abſolutely ſcotfree from it, I cannot: it is ſo repugnant from their ovvne principles.”

2. fiil To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
3. fiil To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.

   “I have smattered law, smattered letters, smattered geography, smattered mathematics; I have even a working knowledge of judicial astrology; and here I stand, all London roaring by at the street's end, as impotent as any baby.”

4. fiil To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.

   “The Barber ſmatters latin, I remember.”

5. fiil To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
6. fiil To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.

   “He ſmattereth a lytell of the lawe: […]”

7. fiil To talk ignorantly or superficially; to babble, to chatter.

   “How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]”

8. isim A shallow or superficial knowledge of a subject.

   “[A]ll other Sciences, they vvere in a manner extinguiſh'd during the Courſe of this Empire, excepting only a Smatter of Judicial Aſtrology, by vvhich, under the Name of Chaldeans, ſome of that Race long amazed ignorant and credulous People.”

9. isim A small amount or number of something.

   “a smatter of applause”