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▪ I. † conˈtext, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. context-us, pa. pple. of contexĕre (see prec.), coinciding with a native pa. pple. of contex vb.]
Woven or knit together.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., The skynne is composed & context and wouen with thredes and vaynes. 1661Boyle Spring of Air iii. iv. (1682) 71 Describe how such a string may be context. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. iv. xii. 222 Hollow and thin, for Lightness, but withal context and firm, for Strength.
▪ II. context, n.|ˈkɒntɛkst|
In 5–6 -texte.
[ad. L. contextus (u-stem) connexion, f. ppl. stem of contexĕre to weave together, connect (see above). Cf. mod.F. contexte (in Cotgr.).]
†1. The weaving together of words and sentences; construction of speech, literary composition. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 5 In the contexte historicalle [contextu historico] the rewle off lyvenge and forme of vertues moralle..ȝiffe grete resplendence thro the diligence of croniclers. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 459 Since these kings there is little difference in the context of [the French] speech, but only in the choice of words, and softness of pronounciation.
†2. concr. The connected structure of a writing or composition; a continuous text or composition with parts duly connected. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 181 Though the aungell in the contexte of his salutacyon, expressed not this name Maria. 1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxv, The bokes of the Euangelistes, vulgarely called the gospelles, which be one contexte of an historie. 1633H. Garthwaite (title), The Evangelical Harmonie, reducing the Four Evangelists into one Continued Context. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. Pref. (1851) 95 That book within whose sacred context all wisdome is infolded.
fig.1635Quarles Embl. ii. vi, The skillful gloss of her reflection But paints the context of thy coarse complexion.
†3. The connexion or coherence between the parts of a discourse. Obs.
1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Context, the agreeing of the matter going before, with that which followeth. 1622M. Fotherby Atheom. Pref. 20, I haue..hindered not the context, and roundnesse of the speech. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 141 The context, or alliance that the text hath with the protext, or verse immediately foregoing.
4. a. concr. The whole structure of a connected passage regarded in its bearing upon any of the parts which constitute it; the parts which immediately precede or follow any particular passage or ‘text’ and determine its meaning. (Formerly circumstance q.v. 1 c, quots. 1549, 1579.)
c1568Fulke Answ. Chr. Protestant (1577) 84 When the articles following are spoken in one context and phrase. 1583― Defence (Parker Soc.) 561 The whole context is this: ‘Let no man say,’ etc. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 24 If it bee meant of..thou, that were absonant from the..context. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 1 That we may understand these words aright, it will be necessary to take a short view of the context. 1709Berkeley Th. Vision §73 A word pronounced with certain circumstances, or in a certain context with other words. a1714Sharp Wks. VII. xv. (R.), To this I answer plainly according to all the light that the contexts afford in this matter. 1849Cobden Speeches 46, I wish honourable gentlemen would have the fairness to give the entire context of what I did say, and not pick out detached words. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 294 A paragraph..unintelligible from want of context.
b. transf. and fig.
1842H. E. Manning Serm. (1848) I. i. 9 We carry on with us from day to day the whole moral context of the day gone by. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi, It is literally impossible, without consulting the context of the building, to say whether the cusps have been added for the sake of beauty or of strength. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. v. 281 The position of facts in the context of experience.
c. in this context: in this connexion.
1873R. Congreve Ess., etc. (1874) 480, I should avail myself of the words of one of our number—not used in this context, but suiting my present purpose.
†5. = contexture. Obs.
1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) I. xvii, Sooner penetrate a Board, Than by a Cut or Thrust divide The Context of the stubborn Hide. 1766R. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 274 The Union of Soul and Body..that mistic Context.
6. attrib. and Comb., as context-theory; context-bound, context-free, context-sensitive adjs.
1965Language XLI. 506 Further, synonymy must be *context-bound.
1957J. Passmore 100 Yrs. Philos. i. 16 All nouns and all adjectives..are *context-free names. 1959I. de Sola Pool Trends in Content Analysis vii. 219 Context-free measurement of symbolic forms which are instrumentally manipulated is apt to be misleading.
1964Language XL. 317 A prosodic feature is one involved in a *context-sensitive phonological rule. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 61 The theory of context-sensitive phrase-structure grammar..probably does not fail in weak generative capacity.
1936J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. of Gram. ix. 116 The *context theory. According to this theory, what a word means depends upon its connection in past experience with some other thing.
▪ III. † conˈtext, v. Obs.
[f. L. context- ppl. stem of contex-ĕre to contex.]
To weave together; = contex. (Perh. only in pa. pple.)
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xvi. 49 Euen to the vngluing of the whole world's frame; Contexted onely, by Commerce, and Contracts. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 343 So have I contexted a continued Catalogue and List. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 52 Count the threads whereof they [events] are contexted. |