| 释义 |
singularize, v.|ˈsɪŋgjʊləraɪz|
[f. singular a. + -ize. Cf. F. singulariser.]
1. trans. To mark conspicuously; to make distinct or conspicuous; to distinguish, signalize.
1589G. Harvey Pierce's Super. i. Wks. (Grosart) II. 111 If any thing miraculously singularizeth witt, it is Impudence. 1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. (1645) 35 Separated from all its fellows by this parenthesis of preferment,..and one other of them..singularized with this parenthesis. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 402 There is not a word there expressing any distinction..to any other Apostle, much lesse singularizing each of them distinctly. 1704Collect. Voy. (Churchill) III. 2/2 It has some Properties which do..singularize it. 1735J. Hughes tr. Fontenelle's Dial. iii. iv. (ed. 3) 145 True Wisdom wou'd too much distinguish and singularize its Possessors. 1894The Voice (N.Y.) 20 Dec. 6/3 He was a Capet, a family name singularized by the recurrence of these warrior prelates.
refl.1685Gracian's Courtier's Oracle 202 They affect..to singularize themselves by an extraordinary air. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 30 Apr., The two Amazons who singularised themselves most in action. 1785C'tess of R. Ess. II. 16 Resolving to do..something good, in order to singularize themselves. 1812Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 383 The instinct..in each man of declaring his particular existence, and thus of singling or singularizing himself.
2. To make singular or one; to individualize; to convert into the singular number. rare.
1663Sparke Prim. Devotion 337 What is the meaning of this hymn so trebled, so singularized, but three distinct Persons, yet one onely Lord God? 1694R. Burthogge Reason 154 The Great Work..of the Body is to Singularize and Individuate the General Vital Principle of the Universe. 1828[J. R. Best] Italy as it is 404 The situation of Baia, the moderns have singularized the name, is preferable to that of Naples.
Hence ˈsingularized, ˈsingularizing ppl. adjs. Also singulariˈzation.
1614Jackson Creed iii. 247 Thus we..speake of the Church indefinitely taken,..not appropriated to any indiuiduall, or singularized person. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 415 Where no such distinction or singularizing expression was found. 1889N. & Q. 7th Ser. VII. 310/2 Your correspondent asks for examples of ignorant singularization. |