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单词 co-terminous
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co-terminousadj.

Forms: Also coterminous
Etymology: Improperly formed: compare contemporary adj. and n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: co-ˈterminous.
= conterminous adj. Frequently const. with.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > contiguous > bordering > having common boundary
conterminate1578
conterminous1631
conterminant1640
co-terminatea1657
co-terminous1799
conterminal1802
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 59 These..fences are constructed and maintained at the mutual expence of co~terminous heritors.
1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome vi. 293 It was their policy to have a co-terminous kindred power on the opposite side of the Alps.
1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington I. i. 1 The estate of Dale of Allington had been coterminous with the parish of Allington for some hundreds of years.
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory x. 159 Another major difference among ethnological historians that is not quite coterminous with the division into a right and left wing.
1940 C. S. Lewis Probl. of Pain iii. 28 There is kindness in Love: but Love and kindness are not coterminous.
1943 A. M. Farrer Finite & Infinite xv. 180 If we take ‘will’ to be coterminous with the highest expressions of explicit rationality.
1966 Economist 15 Jan. 176/1 What future Presidents would gain would be a House of Representatives elected with them..and coterminous with their term of office.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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