dichotomyn.

Brit.

/dʌɪˈkɒtəmi/,

/dᵻˈkɒtəmi/, U.S.

/daɪˈkɑdəmi/

Forms:

α. 1500s dichotomia.

β. 1600s dichotomie, 1600s– dichotomy.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin dichotomia; Greek διχοτομία.

Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin dichotomia division into two parts (1542 or earlier), (in botany) repeated bifurcation (1703 in Ray, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) ancient Greek διχοτομία division into two parts, especially of the moon and in logic, in Hellenistic Greek also bisection, point of bisection < διχότομος (see dichotomous adj.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -tomy comb. form.

a. Division into two sharply defined or contrasting parts; (Logic) division into two mutually exclusive categories or genera; binary classification. Also: an instance of such division.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun]

dichotomy1588

dichotomizing1623

bipartition1652

bisection1656

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two categories

dichotomy1588

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xiii. 57 By which it appeereth that the best diuision must be of partes that be most repugnant, which can bee but two, therefore Dichotomia is most excellent, a diuision consisting onely of two partes.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. iv. 303 This Trichotomy..doth not contradict the other Dichotomy [L. distinctioni] that includeth all in action and contemplation.

1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxi. 277 Whose day after a ramisticall dichotomy being divided into forenoone and afternoone.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §8 Heads that are disposed unto Schism..knit but loosely among themselves, nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their Church, do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atoms.

1704 B. Jenks Second Cent. Medit. v. xlv. 181 Righteous and Wicked, are the known Dichotomy; by which holy Scripture divides all the World, into but Two Parts.

1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §8 Some..have disturbed the Order of Nature..by an Affectation of Dichotomies, Trichotomies, Sevens, Twelves, &c. Let the Nature of the Subject, considered together with the Design which you have in view, always determine the Number of Parts into which you divide it.

a1768 N. Lardner Wks. (1788) IV. cxiv. 24 Oftentimes the books of the Old Testament are denoted by a dichotomy, or twofold partition, ‘the Law and the Prophets’.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxv. 23 If a division has only two members, it is called a dichotomy..; if three, a trichotomy..; if four, a tetrachotomy; if many, a polytomy, &c.

1868 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 598 Popular theology is rather founded on the dichotomy of man into body and soul, than on the Christian trichotomy of body, soul, and spirit.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. vi. 302 The whole sphere of reality may be divided in relation to any predicate..in what is called dichotomy by contradiction, e.g. that ‘everything must either be red or not red’.

1938 Social Forces 17 109/2 A common-sense dichotomy into trade jargons and creole dialects was adumbrated by several writers and stated in passing by the great creolist Hugo Schuchardt.

1973 P. F. Lazarsfeld Main Trends in Sociol. i. 16 To simplify the presentation, each of the variates has been reduced to a dichotomy.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory iv. 312 Formalism and functionalism represent poles of a timeless dichotomy, each expressing a valid way of representing reality.

b. A sharp or paradoxical contrast resulting from such a division; something paradoxical, ambivalent, or contradictory.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction > paradox or dichotomy

paradox1570

contra-indicant1796

antinomy1802

antinome1864

dichotomy1903

1903 Dublin Rev. Nov. 95 It is surely this fatal dichotomy between idealism and reality which lies at the root of the fantastic excesses of modern Germany.

1910 Bk. Buyer June 103/1 In reality both periods overlap; the dichotomy is spiritual, not temporal.

1941 Musical Q. 27 48 The prevalent false dichotomy of ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ based on a belief in the inferiority of the latter as music.

1966 Listener 3 Mar. 323/2 Their uncritical use of the ‘Communist’ versus ‘free world’ dichotomy.

2011 Church Times 18 Nov. 29/1 Nor is there a dichotomy between Christian worship and service of the Kingdom.

2. Astronomy. The phase of the moon or a planet at which exactly half the visible disc is sunlit and half is dark. Cf. dichotomized adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > half moon

dichotomy1661

dichotomization1830

1661 T. Streete Astronomia Carolina 12 Our best Telescope-observations of the Moon's Dichotomies.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 81 This Quadrate or Quartile in its Dichotomy, as the Greeks call it.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. July 354/1 Astronomers have no great Privilege, above any other Persons, to make accurate and decisive Observations of Dichotomys of the Moon.

1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 419/1 Aristarchus..gave a method of determining the distance of the sun by the moon's dichotomy.

1921 T. L. Heath Hist. Greek Math. II. xii. 4 At the time of the dichotomy the centres of the sun, moon and earth form a triangle right-angled at the centre of the moon.

1999 P. Moore Wandering Astronomer xiii. 63 During evening elongations when Venus is a narrowing disc, dichotomy is early.

2011 T. Broxton Our Sun 151 Aristarchus..had the right idea, and his experiment is referred to as the Lunar Dichotomy. He reasoned that when the Moon was in the first or third quarter.., it had to be at right angles to the Sun.

3. Botany and Zoology. The process by which a stem, root, vein, etc., divides into two branches, esp. when occurring repeatedly and successively. Also: an instance of this; the point at which such branching occurs. Cf. dichotomous adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > composed of many parts > branching

dichotomy1707

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 264 From the middle of the leaves rise one or two stalks..always divided into two, or observing a Dichotomy.

1797 Trans. Linn. Soc. 3 203 The dichotomy is more exact in this species [sc. Fucus Radiatus] than in any of its affinities, the corresponding branches generally dividing very regularly at the same height.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xiii. 13 The last [sc. Encrinus Caput Medusæ] seems to differ..in the dichotomies and length of the arms.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 169 Dichotomy..never produces structures..dissimilar to the producing structure.

1938 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 25 145/1 This branching may be regarded as a case of dichotomy.

1982 Bot. Gaz. 143 322/2 Branching of the adult shoot occurs by the equal dichotomy of the apical meristem.

2006 S. Shende et al. in M. K. Rai Handbk. Microbial Biofertilizers xix. 487 Plants showed dichotomy in lateral roots treated with the mycelial disc.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dichotomy
释义	dichotomyn. Brit. /dʌɪˈkɒtəmi/, /dᵻˈkɒtəmi/, U.S. /daɪˈkɑdəmi/ Forms: α. 1500s dichotomia. β. 1600s dichotomie, 1600s– dichotomy. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin dichotomia; Greek διχοτομία. Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin dichotomia division into two parts (1542 or earlier), (in botany) repeated bifurcation (1703 in Ray, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) ancient Greek διχοτομία division into two parts, especially of the moon and in logic, in Hellenistic Greek also bisection, point of bisection < διχότομος (see dichotomous adj.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -tomy comb. form. 1. a. Division into two sharply defined or contrasting parts; (Logic) division into two mutually exclusive categories or genera; binary classification. Also: an instance of such division. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] dichotomy1588 dichotomizing1623 bipartition1652 bisection1656 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two categories dichotomy1588 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xiii. 57 By which it appeereth that the best diuision must be of partes that be most repugnant, which can bee but two, therefore Dichotomia is most excellent, a diuision consisting onely of two partes. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. iv. 303 This Trichotomy..doth not contradict the other Dichotomy [L. distinctioni] that includeth all in action and contemplation. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxi. 277 Whose day after a ramisticall dichotomy being divided into forenoone and afternoone. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §8 Heads that are disposed unto Schism..knit but loosely among themselves, nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their Church, do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atoms. View more context for this quotation 1704 B. Jenks Second Cent. Medit. v. xlv. 181 Righteous and Wicked, are the known Dichotomy; by which holy Scripture divides all the World, into but Two Parts. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §8 Some..have disturbed the Order of Nature..by an Affectation of Dichotomies, Trichotomies, Sevens, Twelves, &c. Let the Nature of the Subject, considered together with the Design which you have in view, always determine the Number of Parts into which you divide it. a1768 N. Lardner Wks. (1788) IV. cxiv. 24 Oftentimes the books of the Old Testament are denoted by a dichotomy, or twofold partition, ‘the Law and the Prophets’. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxv. 23 If a division has only two members, it is called a dichotomy..; if three, a trichotomy..; if four, a tetrachotomy; if many, a polytomy, &c. 1868 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 598 Popular theology is rather founded on the dichotomy of man into body and soul, than on the Christian trichotomy of body, soul, and spirit. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. vi. 302 The whole sphere of reality may be divided in relation to any predicate..in what is called dichotomy by contradiction, e.g. that ‘everything must either be red or not red’. 1938 Social Forces 17 109/2 A common-sense dichotomy into trade jargons and creole dialects was adumbrated by several writers and stated in passing by the great creolist Hugo Schuchardt. 1973 P. F. Lazarsfeld Main Trends in Sociol. i. 16 To simplify the presentation, each of the variates has been reduced to a dichotomy. 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory iv. 312 Formalism and functionalism represent poles of a timeless dichotomy, each expressing a valid way of representing reality. b. A sharp or paradoxical contrast resulting from such a division; something paradoxical, ambivalent, or contradictory. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction > paradox or dichotomy paradox1570 contra-indicant1796 antinomy1802 antinome1864 dichotomy1903 1903 Dublin Rev. Nov. 95 It is surely this fatal dichotomy between idealism and reality which lies at the root of the fantastic excesses of modern Germany. 1910 Bk. Buyer June 103/1 In reality both periods overlap; the dichotomy is spiritual, not temporal. 1941 Musical Q. 27 48 The prevalent false dichotomy of ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ based on a belief in the inferiority of the latter as music. 1966 Listener 3 Mar. 323/2 Their uncritical use of the ‘Communist’ versus ‘free world’ dichotomy. 2011 Church Times 18 Nov. 29/1 Nor is there a dichotomy between Christian worship and service of the Kingdom. 2. Astronomy. The phase of the moon or a planet at which exactly half the visible disc is sunlit and half is dark. Cf. dichotomized adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > half moon dichotomy1661 dichotomization1830 1661 T. Streete Astronomia Carolina 12 Our best Telescope-observations of the Moon's Dichotomies. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 81 This Quadrate or Quartile in its Dichotomy, as the Greeks call it. 1738 Gentleman's Mag. July 354/1 Astronomers have no great Privilege, above any other Persons, to make accurate and decisive Observations of Dichotomys of the Moon. 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 419/1 Aristarchus..gave a method of determining the distance of the sun by the moon's dichotomy. 1921 T. L. Heath Hist. Greek Math. II. xii. 4 At the time of the dichotomy the centres of the sun, moon and earth form a triangle right-angled at the centre of the moon. 1999 P. Moore Wandering Astronomer xiii. 63 During evening elongations when Venus is a narrowing disc, dichotomy is early. 2011 T. Broxton Our Sun 151 Aristarchus..had the right idea, and his experiment is referred to as the Lunar Dichotomy. He reasoned that when the Moon was in the first or third quarter.., it had to be at right angles to the Sun. 3. Botany and Zoology. The process by which a stem, root, vein, etc., divides into two branches, esp. when occurring repeatedly and successively. Also: an instance of this; the point at which such branching occurs. Cf. dichotomous adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > composed of many parts > branching dichotomy1707 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 264 From the middle of the leaves rise one or two stalks..always divided into two, or observing a Dichotomy. 1797 Trans. Linn. Soc. 3 203 The dichotomy is more exact in this species [sc. Fucus Radiatus] than in any of its affinities, the corresponding branches generally dividing very regularly at the same height. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xiii. 13 The last [sc. Encrinus Caput Medusæ] seems to differ..in the dichotomies and length of the arms. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 169 Dichotomy..never produces structures..dissimilar to the producing structure. 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 25 145/1 This branching may be regarded as a case of dichotomy. 1982 Bot. Gaz. 143 322/2 Branching of the adult shoot occurs by the equal dichotomy of the apical meristem. 2006 S. Shende et al. in M. K. Rai Handbk. Microbial Biofertilizers xix. 487 Plants showed dichotomy in lateral roots treated with the mycelial disc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1588
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