Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of watching or observing.
- noun A taking notice of something; a discovery.
- noun The fact of being seen or noticed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of espying; observation; watch; scrutiny.
- noun A spy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of espying; notice; discovery.
- noun obsolete One who espies; a spy; a scout.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Act of
noticing orobserving . - noun The fact of noticing or observing; a
discovery . - noun obsolete A
spy ; ascout .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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By the way, did you mean to have "espial" in your alternative rendering?
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One might understand espial which is itself a troubling hapax to refer to the father of Laris Thefarie, which is the traditional way of naming people in Etruscan inscriptions.
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One might understand espial which is itself a troubling hapax to refer to the father of Laris Thefarie, which is the traditional way of naming people in Etruscan inscriptions.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Stephen C. Carlson: "By the way, did you mean to have 'espial' in your alternative rendering?"
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Looking at the photograph, I agree that estial seems to be a better transcription than espial.
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May 17 Corrected typo at the transcription at the very bottom from espial to estial.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The inscription REE 59,1993 is often transcribed thus: ecn : turce : laris : θefries : espial : atial : caθas
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Based on the above picture, could it be possible that espial is a faulty transcription for what is to be read estial with the letter tau instead of pi?
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Based on the above picture, could it be possible that espial is a faulty transcription for what is to be read estial with the letter tau instead of pi?
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May 17 Corrected typo at the transcription at the very bottom from espial to estial.
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