单词 | aggregative |
释义 | aggregativeadj.n. A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [adjective] > healing wounds or fractures > healing wounds aggregativea1400 vulneral1589 vulnerary1599 agglutinating1634 traumatic1656 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 342 (MED) Medicyns..aggregatiue & consolidatiue ben al oon, And regeneratiue & incarnatiue..ben oon to seie. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 93 (MED) Oile roset..is extinctyue of inflammacions, confortatyue, aggregatyue, inspissatyue. 2. Of or relating to aggregation; collective. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body aggregativea1617 consolidating1707 save-all1823 a1617 P. Baynes Diocesans Tryall (1621) ii. 25 Seven singular starres may signifie seven Vnites, whether singular or aggregative: seven pluralities of persons who are so united as if they were one. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iii. 43 We have heard of late of an aggregative treason..But never untill now of an aggregative Schisme. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Objectum quod complexum, of an art, is the aggregative whole: or a collection of all the objective conclusions or consequences found in the science. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 126 An aggregative process like that which takes place in the setting of mortar. 1869 Ballou's Monthly Aug. 169/1 My glance was attracted from the aggregative mass of human forms by a vision of individual beauty. 1904 Philos. Rev. 13 161 Our reflection helps bind their parts into one aggregative whole. But Spencer's system was a system from the very start. 1950 H. Werner & E. Kaplan in Monogr. Soc. Res. Child Devel. 15 No. 1. 30 The plural concept is a vague class name of the specific solutions, whereas the aggregative concept lacks classificatory activity; it simply combines concretely or fuses the various specific solutions. 1999 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 30 Dec. Advani emphasises that BJP continues to be an ideological party while Congress is ‘aggregative’—that is, it is home to many ideologies. 3. Having the tendency to collect particulars into wholes, or particles into masses. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > having tendency to aggregative1667 1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. ii. 542 I could discern no motion in the world, but that which spirits cause, except only that of the parts to the whole, the aggregative motion which tendeth to rest. 1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision viii. Notes 36 That Substance..shou'd cleave together, or have an aggregative Power. 1796 Monthly Rev. Feb. 194 It is said to prevent homogeneous, but not heterogeneous, particles from uniting; it counteracts aggregative, but not elective attraction. 1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xviii. 219 The aggregative affinity of bodies in promoting chemical union. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. 285 Fancy, or the aggregative and associative power. 1945 Amer. Econ. Rev. 35 371 Across the distinction between statics and dynamics cuts another one: that between aggregative or ‘macro’-economics, and the ‘micro’-economics of a single firm or household. 2008 S. G. Brush Nebulous Earth (new ed.) iii. 53 The aggregative force..is not simply gravity but the excess of gravity over centrifugal force. 4. Having the tendency to unite (oneself) or combine; associative, social. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > [adjective] > having tendency to fellowlyc1425 fellowlikec1454 sociable1511 gregarious1789 aggregative1837 affiliative1861 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > sociable companablea1387 familiarc1425 fellowlyc1425 companiable1440 fellowable1440 fellowlikec1454 accompanable1548 sociable1573 companionable1593 associable1611 conversablea1684 social1698 easy1714 gregarious1789 aggregative1837 company keeping1839 folksy1852 oncoming1925 mixy1942 outgoing1950 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 198 Crabbed old Friend of Men! it is his sociality, his aggregative nature. 1868 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. II. 358/1 Towns are a natural result of the aggregative principle in human nature. 1919 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 570 The social system is the outgrowth of the aggregative and reproductive instincts. 1948 Q. Rev. Biol. 23 30/1 Differences in form and size have been shown to be factors influencing aggregative behavior in various fishes. 2001 Forestry & Brit. Timber (Nexis) 6 Feb. 27 The giant willow aphid is highly aggregative with colonies rapidly covering most of the stem surface of 1-3 year old trees. 5. Of quantities, numbers, etc.: gathered together; collected; total. ΚΠ 1933 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 41 539 There are no aggregative figures at our disposal, but the evidence from many (but scattered) sources indicates that the difficulty has been considerable. 1960 P. B. Kenen Brit. Monetary Policy & Balance Payments vi. 163 These aggregative statistics doubtlessly conceal shortages of finance within the private sector. 1982 Bell Jrnl. Econ. 13 144 The aggregative quantities of both inputs must be shared by the two production sectors. 2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 8 June 2246/2 The aggregative numbers quoted frequently..to project that nationalised banks are a huge burden on the budget. B. n. 1. Medicine. = aggregative pill n. at Compounds.Regarding the interpretation of quot. 1588, cf. quot. 2011 for aggregative pill n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > pill > specific type of pill aggregative1588 Matthew's pill1663 blue pill1670 silver-pill1753 multi1984 1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method Curing Woundes ii. ii. f. 32 Pilles of the masse of the aggregatiues and Agarick. 1910 A. C. Wootton Chron. Pharmacy II. xxiv. 279 Aggregatives, pills devised by Mesué which were intended to purge all the humours. 2. Something that is aggregative; (Linguistics) an aggregative compound or numeral. ΚΠ 1846 M. Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscrit ix. 162 This ambiguity, however, can never occur in aggregatives inflected in the dual. 1923 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 37 349 Standard series of index numbers are best constructed as aggregatives or geometric averages with constant weights. 1962 B. Mitchell Alexander Hamilton II. xii. 218 This distinction in American politics between the aggregative and the particular. 1995 R. Yadav Ref. Gram. Maithili v. 141 The numerals in Maithili are (i) cardinals, (ii) ordinals.., and (v) aggregatives. Phrases †in the aggregative = in the aggregate at aggregate adj. and n. Phrases 1 (obsolete). ΚΠ a1641 H. Spelman Feuds & Tenures in Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ (1698) xiv. 27 Such customs, as were in use either before the Conquest, or at the Conquest, or at any time since, in the disjunctive not in the aggregative. Compounds aggregative pill n. [after post-classical Latin pillula aggregativa (1505 or earlier); compare the French and Spanish parallels cited in the main etymology] Medicine (now historical and rare) any kind of pill formulated from several ingredients (with different actions) and used in the treatment of diseases believed to affect more than one system or part of the body, or to be caused by more than morbid humour; cf. polychrest n. 1. ΚΠ 1603 T. Lodge Treat. Plague xii. sig. H2v The poore may vse pilles Aggregatiue, or Aurea, or Cochia, to the quantitie of a drachme or foure scruples, and when their medicine hath wrought his operation, they may take half a porrenger of the broath of a chickin, and make a light meale. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 398 The whites, or womans flux..; it's cured,..if bilious, by temperants, subastringents, succory and endive, evacuation by rhubarb, aggregative pills, and those of rhubarb. 1694 J. Pechey London Dispensatory 73 (heading) Aggregative Pills, or Pills that have many Virtues, in Latin, pillulae aggegativæ sive polychrestæ. 2011 J. Shaw & E. Welch Making & Marketing Med. in Renaissance Florence 250 Bespoke varieties tended to cost more—a composition of agaric trochisks and ‘aggregative pills’ cost eight denari each. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.a1400 |
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