单词 | discretively |
释义 | discretivelyadv. Now rare. In a discretive manner (in various senses of the adjective); disjunctively; distinctively; separately. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adverb] > in the manner of other types of proposition particularly1573 problematically1588 discretively1626 contradictorily1678 connexively1684 dispositionally1908 1626 W. Gouge Guide to goe to God vi. 246 Sometimes indeede it [sc. the article] is used demonstratiuely, pointing at one speciall one: sometimes discretiuely, distinguishing one speciall one from all others of the same sort. a1654 J. Richardson Choice Observ. & Explan. Old Test. (1655) 237 The Plural number being used discretively to note out, and designe one of many. 1751 B. Holloway Originals Physical & Theol. II. 95 That which is, discretively, thus or thus, in this visible, palpable, or other sensible, or apprehensible, Manner. 1768 T. Harmer Outl. New Comm. Solomon's Song iii. xi. 228 I have rendered the particle discretively, which in our Version is translated also. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxvii. 338 Reasoning is either from the whole to its parts; or from all the parts, discretively, to the whole they constitute, collectively. 1875 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 8 86 The whole of one class may be discretively identical with the whole of another or with a part of another, or a part with a part. 1957 J. A. Raftis Estates Ramsey Abbey i. 19 Through a solid block of uplands and gravel flats,..to spread out more discretively in southern Huntingdon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1626 |
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