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单词 quidditative
释义 ˈquidditative, a. Obs.
[f. quiddit-y + -ative. See also quiddative.]
1. Pertaining to the quiddity or essence of a thing.
1650Charleton Paradoxes 9 The quidditative and peculiarly expresse causes of all those admirable effects of the Loadstone.1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 220 The quidditative notion of an Element.
2. Full of equivocations, quirky.
1611Cotgr., Quidditatif, quidditatiue, doubtfull, obscure, full of quirkes, fraught with quiddities.1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. i. ix. 31 A weak and easily penetrable hedge of some quidditative Cautions.
Hence ˈquidditatively adv.
c1600Timon iv. iii. (1842) 66 The moone may bee taken..either specificatiuely, or quidditatiuely, or superficially, or catapodially.
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