View source for Shew

{{also|Shew}}
==English==

===Etymology 1===

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|en|/ʃoʊ/|a=GA}}
* {{IPA|en|/ʃəʊ/|a=RP}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shew.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|əʊ|s=1}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb||||shewn|past_ptc2=shewed|past_ptc3=shewen|past_ptc3_qual=obsolete}}

# {{archaic spelling of|en|show}}
#* {{RQ:King James Version|Genesis|12|1|page=88|column=2|passage={{big|N}}Ow the {{smc|Lord}} had ſaid vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and from thy fathers houſe, vnto a land that I will '''ſhew''' thee.}}
#* {{RQ:King James Version|Ruth|2|19|page=367|column=1|passage=And ſhee '''ſhewed''' her mother in lawe with whom ſhee had wrought, and ſaid, The mans name with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1774|by=w:Le Page Du Pratz|title=The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zEoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42|chapter=The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men.|publisher=T. Becket
|location=London|page=42|passage=I give it you without any other design than to '''shew''' you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.}}
#* {{RQ:Grose Ancient Armour|page=xiv|text=The section '''shewing''' its concavity and handle.}}
#* {{RQ:Austen Sense and Sensibility|volume=I|chapter=XIII|page=161|passage={{...}} Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to '''shew''' me the place; {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Carlyle Past and Present|2|Ch. 5, Twelfth Century||We have Processions, Preachings, Festivals, Christmas Plays, Mysteries '''shewn''' in the Churchyard, at which latter the Townsfolk sometimes quarrel.}}
#* '''1884''': [[w:Edwin A. Abbott|Edwin A. Abbott]], ''[[w:Flatland|Flatland]]'', Sec. 4, ''Concerning the Women''
#*: But, as I shall soon '''shew''', this custom, though it has the advantage of safety, is not without its disadvantages.
#* '''1908''': T. J. I'a Bromwich, ''An Introduction to the Theory of Infinite Series'', Power Series, Derangement of expansions.
#*: Expand the series <math>\frac{1}{1-x}-\frac{x}{(1-x)^3}+\frac{1 \cdot 3}{2!}\frac{x^2}{(1-x)^3}-\frac{1 \cdot 3 \cdot 5}{3!}\frac{x^3}{(1-x)^7}+\cdots</math> powers of x, '''shewing''' that the coefficient of <math>x^n</math> is <math>S_{n}=1+\sum_{1}^{n}(-1)^r\frac{(n+r)!}{(r!)^2(n-r)!}\frac{1}{2^r}</math>.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1913|year_published=1967|author=w:John Bagnell Bury|by=w:Carl Heinrich Becker|title=The Cambridge Medieval History|chapter=The Expansion of the Saracens—The East; Historical aspect of Islam|section=The Rise of the Saracens and the foundation of the Western Empire|publisher=The Macmillan Company|location=New York|editor=w:Henry Melvill Gwatkin; w:James Pounder Whitney|volume=2|page=330|passage=Within the Christian sphere this current '''shews''' itself more especially in the territories of the Greek and Aramaic languages, and the difference between the Greek and Latin Churches is mainly that between Asia and Europe.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1921|translator=C. K. Moncrieff|author=Marcel Proust|title=Swann's Way|page=1
|passage=I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating the distance like the note of a bird in a forest, '''shewed''' me in perspective the deserted countryside through which a traveller would be hurrying towards the nearest station: the path that he followed being fixed forever in his memory but the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to farewells exchanged beneath an unfamiliar lamp which echoed still in his ears amid the silence of the night; and to the delightful prospect of being once again at home.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|shew forth}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{archaic spelling of|en|show}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Thomas Middleton|title=The Wisdome of Solomon Paraphrased|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed at London by}} [[w:Valentine Simmes|Valentine Sems]],{{nb...|dwelling on Adling hil at the signe of the white Swanne}}|year=1597|passage=Cannot the body weepe without the eies? / Yes and frame deepeſt canzons of lament, / Cannot the body feare, without it lies / Vpon the outward '''ſhew''' of diſcontent: {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Peter du Moulin [''i.e.'', {{w|Pierre Du Moulin}}]|chapter=The Twentieth Article. Of Iustification by Faith, and What True Faith Is.|translator=[anonymous]|title=The Bvckler of the Faith: Or, A Defence of the Confession of Faith of the Reformed Churches in France, against the Obiections of M. [Jean] Arnoux the Iesuite.{{nb...|Wherein All the Principall Controuersies betweene the Reformed Churches and the Church of Rome are Decided. Written in French by Peter du Moulin Minister of the Word of God in Paris: And Now Translated into English.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} [[w:Richard Field (printer)|R[ichard] F[ield]]] for Nathanael Newbery,{{nb...|and are to be sold at the signe of the Starre vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornhill, and in Popes head Alley.}}|year=1620|section=section 49 (Of the Feare of the Faithfull, and Whether It Derogateth Anything from the Certainty of Saluation)|page=144|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7yJZYdQhqoC&pg=PA144|oclc=863577882|passage=And if he did apprehend (as they ſay) nothing by the iudgement of men, he had no need to carrie his mortification ſo farre, as to dompt and ſubject his moſt inward and ſecret motions, and to pull downe the moſt liuely and ſecret prouocations of his fleſh: but it had bene ſufficient for him to haue vſed diſſimulation, and ſome outward '''ſhew''' of pretended reformation.}}
#* {{RQ:Milton Collected Works|Reason|203|Let them make '''ſhews''' of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to ''Uzza''.}}
#* {{RQ:Wollstonecraft Mary|chapter=I|passage=She carefully attended to the '''''ſhews''''' of things, and her opinions, I ſhould have ſaid prejudices, were ſuch as the generality approved of.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=an Architect|title=The Pursuits of Architectural Innovation. No. LXVI. Salisbury Cathedral ''continued''.|journal=[[w:The Gentleman's Magazine|The Gentleman’s Magazine]]|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} Nichols and Son,{{nb...|at Cicero’s Head, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-street}}|month=December|year=1803|page=1122|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_gentlemans-magazine_1803-12_73_12/page/1122/mode/1up|column=1|passage=I NEXT paſſed into the choir; a ſcene of transformation indeed! I had been accuſtomed to contemplate here a far different order of things. Our profeſſional Merlins have waved their wands to ſome purpoſe; and all view, as their familiars invited me to believe, was to be given up to the momentary glance at an Eidophuſicon '''ſhew''' of the Reſurrection filling the Eaſt window in that ſpot late our Lady’s chapel, now the termination of the choir.}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col|en
|shew bread,shew-bread
|shewey,shewy
|shew stone
}}

===Etymology 2===

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|en|/ʃuː/|a=RP}}
* {{rhymes|en|uː|s=1}}
* {{homophones|en|shoe|shoo}}

====Verb====
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{lb|en|East Anglia}} {{infl of|en|show||spast}}
#: {{ux|en|As I travelled, the signposts '''shew''' me the way.}}

===Etymology 3===

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{nonstandard spelling of|en|shoo}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1869|author=Frank Campbell|title=Shew! fly, don't bother me
|passage='''Shew!''' fly, don't bother me, '''Shew!''' fly, don't bother me, '''Shew!''' fly, don't bother me, I belong to comp'ny G.}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ehsw|Hews|hews|wehs}}

{{cln|en|irregular simple past forms|irregular verbs}}

==Maltese==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|mt|/sɛw/}}

===Verb===
{{head|mt|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|mt|seha||3|p|perfect}}