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单词 descriptum
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descriptumn.

Brit. /dᵻˈskrɪptəm/, U.S. /dəˈskrɪptəm/, /diˈskrɪptəm/
Inflections: Plural descripta.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin dēscrīptum, dēscrībere.
Etymology: < classical Latin dēscrīptum, neuter past participle of dēscrībere describe v. In sense 2 after use of the Latin word in this sense in a Danish linguistic context in V. Brøndal Ordklasserne (1928) 72. Compare descriptor n.
1. In the work of William Ernest Johnson, British logician (1858–1931): a word or grammatical component used to denote a thing; a substantive, a noun. Obsolete. rare.
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1918 W. E. Johnson in Mind 27 13 I propose to adopt the word descriptum for any term..which is structurally united with an appropriate adjective.
1918 W. E. Johnson in Mind 27 136 Here, such a component as ‘a dog’ or ‘a child’ (which is of the general nature of a substantive) will be called a descriptum; and..[one] of the general nature of an adjective..will be called a description.
2. Linguistics. Viggo Brøndal's term for: the concept of quantity (quantity n. 7), one of four concepts (along with descriptor, relator, and relatum) which, in various combinations, form the logical basis of all parts of speech. Cf. descriptor n. 2, relator n. 5, relatum n. 2.Broadly corresponding to the Aristotelian category of quantity.
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1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 12 Recently V. Brøndal..has made a very bold attempt at a completely new system..Relator (R) and Relatum (r), Descriptor (D) and Descriptum (d).
1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. v. 157 The descriptum corresponds to quantity and has its pure expression in numerals; the descriptor with quality and is pure in adverbs.
1965 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 61 184 Brøndal's scheme of relatum, descriptum, descriptor, and relator is a return under other names to a semantic system of substance, quantity, quality and relation respectively.
3. Philosophy. The entity to which a description refers; the object of a description.
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1936 Mind 45 37 We might distinguish these two varieties..as the theories (1) that the Self is a Descriptum, and (2) that it is a Logical Construction.
1938 H. Reichenbach Exper. & Predict. §25. 220 Existence is a quality not of individual things but of descripta.
1947 R. Carnap Meaning & Necessity i. 32 The entity for which a description stands (if there is such an entity) will be called its descriptum.
1955 Philos. Rev. 64 390 ‘The author of Waverley’ is fulfilled, has a descriptum, namely, Walter Scott, and ‘the king of France in 1905’ is not fulfilled, has no descriptum.
1998 D. Føllesdal in P. W. Humphreys & J. H. Fetzer New Theory Ref. (1999) viii. 189 It obviously suffices that in each possible world either both descriptions lack a descriptum or they have a common descriptum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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