deficientadj.n.

/dɪˈfɪʃənt/

Etymology: < Latin dēficient-em, present participle of dēficĕre to fail, originally to undo, do away, take oneself away, leave, forsake; < de- prefix 1f + facere to make, do. Compare modern French déficient (1754 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).

A. adj.

a. Wanting some part, element, constituent, or characteristic which is necessary to completeness, or having less than the proper amount of it; wanting or falling short in something; defective.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > ill-provided with something

barec1220

leana1340

needya1425

matterless1483

deficious1541

scarce of?1541

scanta1595

deficienta1616

strait1662

short of1697

shy1895

low on1904

short on1922

light1936

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. iii. 63 Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. A iv Howsoever the Gift, and the Giver be deficient.

1651 T. Rudd Euclides Elem. Geom. sig. Aiv The [Manuscript] Copie, in many places, was deficient.

1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory 32 Latine words (where our language is deficient) Englished.

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 67 In the point of murder..we have little reason to think that our late Tyranny has been deficient to the examples..set it in other Countries.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 19. 121 We find our selves deficient in any thing else sooner than in our Understanding.

1759 S. Johnson Idler 1 Sept. 273 Men complain..of deficient memory.

1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing 7 The best women, are wofully deficient in sanitary knowledge.

1891 Law Times 92 94/1 Milk which on analysis proved to be deficient in fatty matter to the extent of about 33 per cent.

†b. Grammar. = defective adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Defective, or Deficient Nouns, in Grammar, are such as want either a Number, a particular Case, or are indeclinable.

c. Arithmetic. deficient number: a number the sum of whose factors is less than the number itself.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Deficient Numbers, are such whose Parts added together make less than the Integer, whose Parts they are.

d. Geometry. deficient hyperbola: a cubic curve having only one asymptote.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Deficient Hyperbola, is a Curve of that Denomination, having only one Asymptote, and two Hyperbolic Legs.

†e. Music. Applied to any interval diminished by a comma. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval Limma of the Greek Scale, or deficient Semi-tone Major.

2. Present in less than the proper quantity; not of sufficient force; wholly or partly wanting or lacking; insufficient, inadequate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > deficient or wanting

wanec825

thurfec1175

lacking1480

indigent1531

defect1543

awanting1583

missed1584

wanting1592

defective1603

wanted1619

half-baked1627

deficient1632

manqué1773

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 14 Meere conjectures were deficient because the meanes (whereby to conjecture) were wanting.

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 56 If I should say that personal kind of Courage had been deficient in the man.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iv. 333 Apprehensions that our stock of water would prove deficient.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 245 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with deficient sympathy.

1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 40 The quantity of fluid which would be required to saturate it is sometimes called the Deficient fluid.

†3. deficient cause n. that ‘deficience’, failure to act, or absence of anything, which becomes the cause or negative condition of some result. Obsolete.The conception and the phrase (causa deficiens) appear first in St. Augustine, in his discussion of the origin of evil and of God's relation to it, and are connected with his doctrine that evil being nothing positive, but merely a defect, could have no efficient, but only a deficient cause. It was also used by Thomas Aquinas (who distinguished the physical sense of the phrase from the moral); in English it came into vogue during the Calvinistic-Arminian controversy in 16–17th centuries, in reference both to the origin of evil and to the reprobation of the wicked. Cf. defective adj. 5.[ St. August. De Civ. Dei xii. vii, Nemo igitur quærat efficientem caussam malæ voluntatis, non enim est efficiens, sed deficiens; quia nec illa effectio est, sed defectio; deficere namque ab eo quod summum est, ad id quod minus est, hoc est incipere habere voluntatem malam.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > types of cause

efficient cause1393

conjunct causec1400

final causec1400

meritorious cause1526

matter1570

deficient cause1581

effectrix1583

formal cause1586

material cause1586

final cause1587

conservant cause1588

efficient1593

effective1610

defective cause1624

proximate cause1641

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 204 And hereof commeth the destruction of the reprobates..y^e efficient cause wherof consisteth truely in every of their own corruption, but the cause deficient in the will of God.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man vi. 568 It [sc. the cause of evil and sin] is no efficient but a deficient cause.

1658 L. Womock Exam. Tilenus 40 There are sins of omission..and if the deficient cause in things necessary be the efficient, you know to whom such sins are to be imputed.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. ii. vi. §3. 380 As for moral evil he [God] is not the author or cause thereof as it is evil: because moral evils as such have no efficient cause but only deficient.

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. vi. 195 Gods concurse is neither the efficient nor deficient cause of sin.

†4. Failing, fainting; of or pertaining to swooning. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon

swownc1000

deadc1369

swoonc1450

swounding1570

deficient1608

tranced1608

sounding1621

swooning1646

fainted1847

to go out like a light1909

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 23 Ile looke no more, Least my braine turne, and the deficient sight Topple downe headlong.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 438 A..giddy headed Foole, (full of deficient Vapours).

B. n.

†1. (a) Something that is wanting, or absent where it should be present; (b) the want or absence of something; a deficiency. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > deficiency, lack, or shortage > instance(s) of

wants1577

failing1590

deficient1640

vacancy1759

1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 23 To set down more than the naked Titles, or brief Arguments of Deficients.

1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 1 Lord Bacon..reckons it among the Deficients of Natural History.

1686 Wilding in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 263 To y^e mercer for deficients to my new suit.

†2. Grammar. A defective noun. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > inflectional irregularity > irregular or defective form

defective1530

heteroclite1580

irregular1611

deficient1647

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 24 Like the Quæ Genus in the Grammar, being Deficients, or Redundants, not to bee brought under any Rule.

†3. A person who fails to do what is required; a defaulter. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > failure to meet obligations > one who

deficient1697

lame duck1761

defaulter1808

man of straw1823

waddler1831

shicer1896

skip1915

shyster1938

1697 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 521 Y^e Collectors had neither brought in the Monies they had Received, nor y^e names of the deficients.

1719 Ayr Presbyterian Rec. in Church Life Scotl. (1885) I. i. 22 (note) The deficients have all engadged to do it.

4. = defective n. 3(b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > person

congeonc1285

idiota1400

foola1425

natural foolc1450

natural idiot1497

natural1533

changeling1577

weakling1577

mooncalf1586

slimslack1600

aufe1621

oaf1638

weak-wit1656

underwit1682

imbecile1830

ament1871

unfortunate1881

balmy1903

subnormal1905

deficient1906

retard1909

retardate1912

retarded1912

mopoke1946

retardee1956

mong1980

1906 F. Thoresby in Westm. Rev. Jan. 39 There are the deficients, i.e., those who from, or before birth, or by reason of their rearing, or both, never have..a fair start.

1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 213 [Authorities] vary notoriously... Some are active, while others close their eyes to the existence of deficients within their areas.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	deficient
释义	deficientadj.n. /dɪˈfɪʃənt/ Etymology: < Latin dēficient-em, present participle of dēficĕre to fail, originally to undo, do away, take oneself away, leave, forsake; < de- prefix 1f + facere to make, do. Compare modern French déficient (1754 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). A. adj. 1. a. Wanting some part, element, constituent, or characteristic which is necessary to completeness, or having less than the proper amount of it; wanting or falling short in something; defective. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > ill-provided with something barec1220 leana1340 needya1425 matterless1483 deficious1541 scarce of?1541 scanta1595 deficienta1616 strait1662 short of1697 shy1895 low on1904 short on1922 light1936 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. iii. 63 Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. A iv Howsoever the Gift, and the Giver be deficient. 1651 T. Rudd Euclides Elem. Geom. sig. Aiv The [Manuscript] Copie, in many places, was deficient. 1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory 32 Latine words (where our language is deficient) Englished. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 67 In the point of murder..we have little reason to think that our late Tyranny has been deficient to the examples..set it in other Countries. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 19. 121 We find our selves deficient in any thing else sooner than in our Understanding. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 1 Sept. 273 Men complain..of deficient memory. 1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing 7 The best women, are wofully deficient in sanitary knowledge. 1891 Law Times 92 94/1 Milk which on analysis proved to be deficient in fatty matter to the extent of about 33 per cent. †b. Grammar. = defective adj. 3. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Defective, or Deficient Nouns, in Grammar, are such as want either a Number, a particular Case, or are indeclinable. c. Arithmetic. deficient number: a number the sum of whose factors is less than the number itself. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Deficient Numbers, are such whose Parts added together make less than the Integer, whose Parts they are. d. Geometry. deficient hyperbola: a cubic curve having only one asymptote. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Deficient Hyperbola, is a Curve of that Denomination, having only one Asymptote, and two Hyperbolic Legs. †e. Music. Applied to any interval diminished by a comma. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval Limma of the Greek Scale, or deficient Semi-tone Major. 2. Present in less than the proper quantity; not of sufficient force; wholly or partly wanting or lacking; insufficient, inadequate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > deficient or wanting wanec825 thurfec1175 lacking1480 indigent1531 defect1543 awanting1583 missed1584 wanting1592 defective1603 wanted1619 half-baked1627 deficient1632 manqué1773 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 14 Meere conjectures were deficient because the meanes (whereby to conjecture) were wanting. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 56 If I should say that personal kind of Courage had been deficient in the man. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iv. 333 Apprehensions that our stock of water would prove deficient. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 245 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with deficient sympathy. 1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 40 The quantity of fluid which would be required to saturate it is sometimes called the Deficient fluid. †3. deficient cause n. that ‘deficience’, failure to act, or absence of anything, which becomes the cause or negative condition of some result. Obsolete.The conception and the phrase (causa deficiens) appear first in St. Augustine, in his discussion of the origin of evil and of God's relation to it, and are connected with his doctrine that evil being nothing positive, but merely a defect, could have no efficient, but only a deficient cause. It was also used by Thomas Aquinas (who distinguished the physical sense of the phrase from the moral); in English it came into vogue during the Calvinistic-Arminian controversy in 16–17th centuries, in reference both to the origin of evil and to the reprobation of the wicked. Cf. defective adj. 5.[ St. August. De Civ. Dei xii. vii, Nemo igitur quærat efficientem caussam malæ voluntatis, non enim est efficiens, sed deficiens; quia nec illa effectio est, sed defectio; deficere namque ab eo quod summum est, ad id quod minus est, hoc est incipere habere voluntatem malam.] ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > types of cause efficient cause1393 conjunct causec1400 final causec1400 meritorious cause1526 matter1570 deficient cause1581 effectrix1583 formal cause1586 material cause1586 final cause1587 conservant cause1588 efficient1593 effective1610 defective cause1624 proximate cause1641 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 204 And hereof commeth the destruction of the reprobates..y^e efficient cause wherof consisteth truely in every of their own corruption, but the cause deficient in the will of God. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man vi. 568 It [sc. the cause of evil and sin] is no efficient but a deficient cause. 1658 L. Womock Exam. Tilenus 40 There are sins of omission..and if the deficient cause in things necessary be the efficient, you know to whom such sins are to be imputed. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. ii. vi. §3. 380 As for moral evil he [God] is not the author or cause thereof as it is evil: because moral evils as such have no efficient cause but only deficient. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. vi. 195 Gods concurse is neither the efficient nor deficient cause of sin. †4. Failing, fainting; of or pertaining to swooning. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon swownc1000 deadc1369 swoonc1450 swounding1570 deficient1608 tranced1608 sounding1621 swooning1646 fainted1847 to go out like a light1909 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 23 Ile looke no more, Least my braine turne, and the deficient sight Topple downe headlong. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 438 A..giddy headed Foole, (full of deficient Vapours). B. n. †1. (a) Something that is wanting, or absent where it should be present; (b) the want or absence of something; a deficiency. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > deficiency, lack, or shortage > instance(s) of wants1577 failing1590 deficient1640 vacancy1759 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 23 To set down more than the naked Titles, or brief Arguments of Deficients. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 1 Lord Bacon..reckons it among the Deficients of Natural History. 1686 Wilding in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 263 To y^e mercer for deficients to my new suit. †2. Grammar. A defective noun. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > inflection > [noun] > inflectional irregularity > irregular or defective form defective1530 heteroclite1580 irregular1611 deficient1647 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 24 Like the Quæ Genus in the Grammar, being Deficients, or Redundants, not to bee brought under any Rule. †3. A person who fails to do what is required; a defaulter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > failure to meet obligations > one who deficient1697 lame duck1761 defaulter1808 man of straw1823 waddler1831 shicer1896 skip1915 shyster1938 1697 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 521 Y^e Collectors had neither brought in the Monies they had Received, nor y^e names of the deficients. 1719 Ayr Presbyterian Rec. in Church Life Scotl. (1885) I. i. 22 (note) The deficients have all engadged to do it. 4. = defective n. 3(b). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > person congeonc1285 idiota1400 foola1425 natural foolc1450 natural idiot1497 natural1533 changeling1577 weakling1577 mooncalf1586 slimslack1600 aufe1621 oaf1638 weak-wit1656 underwit1682 imbecile1830 ament1871 unfortunate1881 balmy1903 subnormal1905 deficient1906 retard1909 retardate1912 retarded1912 mopoke1946 retardee1956 mong1980 1906 F. Thoresby in Westm. Rev. Jan. 39 There are the deficients, i.e., those who from, or before birth, or by reason of their rearing, or both, never have..a fair start. 1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 213 [Authorities] vary notoriously... Some are active, while others close their eyes to the existence of deficients within their areas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.n.1581
随便看	monotonousness monotonousnesses monotony monotower monotransitive monotremal monotremata monotremate monotrematous monotreme monotremes monotremous monotrichous monotriglyph monotriglyphic monotroch monotrochal monotroche monotrochian monotrochous monotropa monotropaceous monotropeous monotrophic monotropic