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1. 순수한, 희석하지 않은 (술 등이)

1. sheer, undiluted, pure (especially of wine)

예문

• * * * Patitur enim, quod qui herediolum sterile et agrum scruposum, meras rupinas et senticeta miseri colunt: (Apuleius, Florida 11:1)

  (아풀레이우스, 플로리다 11:1)

• "Ineptias inquam Mihi narras et nugas meras." (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 2 21:17)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 2권 21:17)

• uerum haec ferme communi quodam errore imperitorum philosophis obiectantur, ut partim eorum qui corporum causas meras et simplicis rimantur irreligiosos putent eoque aiant deos abnuere, ut Anaxagoram et Leucippum et Democritum et Epicurum ceterosque rerum naturae patronos, partim autem, qui prouidentiam mundi curiosius uestigant et impensius deos celebrant, eos uero uulgo magos nominent, quasi facere etiam sciant quae sciant fieri, ut olim fuere Epimenides et Orpheus et Pythagoras et Ostanes, ac dein similiter suspectata Empedocli catharmoe, Socrati daemonion, Platonis το` ἀγαθόν. gratulor igitur mihi, cum et ego tot ac tantis uiris adnumeror. (Apuleius, Apologia 25:1)

  (아풀레이우스, 변명 25:1)

• peroraturus stricturum se lucubrationis suae telum minabatur, lenius comptiusque scribendi genus adeo contemnens, ut Senecam tum maxime placentem 'commissiones meras' componere et 'harenam esse sine calce' diceret. (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum, C. Caligula, chapter 53 2:1)

  (가이우스 수에토니우스 트란퀼루스, 황제전, , 53장 2:1)

• Tunc nugas meras fundere et adversum singulos declamare; (Jerome, Saint, Epistulae. Selections., Ad Rusticum Monachum 18:8)

  (히에로니무스, 편지들, 18:8)

유의어 사전

1. Purus (ψωρός) denotes purity, as a synonyme of integer, and in opp. to contaminatus, like καθαρός, Suet. Vesp. 9; whereas mundus, as a synonyme of nitidus, and in opp. to spurcus or sordidus, like κομψός; Senec. Ep. 70. Sall. Jug. 85. Hor. Sat. ii. 1, 65; lastly, merus (from μείρω) as a synonyme of simplex, and in opp. to mixtus, like ἀκήρατοσ, ἀκέραιος. Colum. iii. 21. 2. Purus is the general and popular, putus, or usually purus putus, purus ac putus, the technical expression for the purity of gold and silver, that are solid and without alloy. 3. Merus denotes anything unmixed, indifferently, or with praise, as a mixture may be an adulteration; whereas meracus refers especially to unmixed wine, and, figuratively, it is transferred to other objects, and means unmixed in a bad sense, as that which is without its proper ingredients, like the old German word, eitel, thin and poor in quality, in opp. to temperatus. Cic. Rep. i. 43. (iii. 204.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein