单词 | dialectician |
释义 | dialecticiann. 1. a. Philosophy. A person who is skilled in dialectic; a master of reasoned argument or disputation; a logician. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [noun] > a dialectic philosopher dialecticc1425 dialectician1560 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 218 For the ordinarie Stipend of the Dialecticiane Reidar..we think sufficient ane hundreth pundis. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 406 Ane far better dialectician then ȝour Grace. a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 103 A guid and wise dialectisiane. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xix. 155 According to the Dialecticians. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) IV. 624 An art that..might help the subtil dialectician to pose even the man he could not refute. 1799 H. More Strictures Mod. Syst. Female Educ. I. vii. 168 Far be it from me to desire to make scholastic ladies or female dialecticians. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. iv. 233 The terseness or lucidity which long habits of literary warfare..have given to some expert dialecticians. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend vi. 266 For none but a clever dialectician Can hope to become a great physician. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 287 They were acute dialecticians, and rarely blundered in what is termed the formal part of logic. 1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic xviii. 361 The dialectician, without a scientific knowledge of a subject, may know what sort of questions to ask. 1965 E. Dahlberg Reasons of Heart 154 Socrates was supposed to have been a calm dialectician. 2007 Rhetorica 25 98 The dialectician, as Aristotle conceives him, is able to argue on either side of any question without substantive knowledge of the field. b. A person who uses the dialectical method of Hegel or Marx to understand and analyse the world; an adherent or advocate of Hegelian or Marxist dialectics. ΚΠ 1871 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 5 322 The author must admit that Heraklitus is completely a dialectician in the Hegelian sense. 1933 Spectator 5 May 636/2 He [sc. Marx] never resolved the inner clashes..between Marx the objective student, Marx the revolutionary conspirator, and Marx the Hegelian dialectician. 1982 H. Redner In Beginning was Deed 87 Of themselves, contradictions need not necessarily promote development, as dialecticians suppose. 2013 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 7 July 24 McCluskey is an ideologue, a dialectician who deplores Miliband's ‘One Nation’ slogan as an affront to the war between capital and labour. 2. Linguistics. An expert in, or student of, dialect; a dialectologist. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > linguistic geography or dialectology > one who studies dialectician1848 dialectologist1871 dialectologer1881 social dialectologist1965 variationist1975 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 27 Lindsay the ready of speech, the Piper, the Dialectician..Who in three weeks had created a dialect new for the party. 1882 Miss Powley in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 6 272 However well established [his] opinion among dialecticians may be. 1922 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Reminisc. xviii. 284 Professor Joseph Wright of Oxford,..the most learned dialectician we have. 1977 M. Helprin Refiner's Fire x. xix. 347 Each soldier had to claim a specialty. There were linguists..dialecticians, forgers, Arabic typists. 2010 Jewish Chron. 8 Oct. 22/3 He developed his talent as a dialectician by mimicking the voices of the European, Russian and Polish customers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1560 |
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