单词 | episodic |
释义 | episodicadj. a. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, an episode; incidental, occasional. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > episodic episodical1668 episodic1711 episodial1857 episodal1876 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. i. 268 The same Episodick Liberty..which we have maintain'd in the preceding Chapters. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. Observ. 204 This Episodic narration gives the Poet an opportunity to relate [etc.]. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. 257 Such incidents as these, episodic as they were to the two great topics of Wilkes and the Constitution and the growing disaffection of the American colonies. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such vi. 123 His episodic show of regard. b. Also, of a literary work: Characterized by the frequent introduction of episodes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > discursive or digressive digressinga1535 exorbitant1534 discursive1598 solute1605 digressive?1611 excursive1673 rimble-ramble1690 land-loping1694 digressionary1741 parenthetic1782 uncentral1782 digressional1785 parenthetical1814 discursative1819 discursory1830 episodic1867 winding1887 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 68 It [the Mahabharata] is more episodic than the other [the Ramayana]. Draft additions March 2014 episodic memory n. memory of a specific event; spec. the conscious recollection of events in a person's life; (also) a memory of this type. ΚΠ 1922 J. A. Leighton Man & Cosmos xv. 187 The unity and continuity of the empirical self is that of the fluctuating, interrupted, and episodic memories, feelings, ideas, and purposes that correspond roughly with the observed bodily processes. 1974 Cognitive Psychol. 6 293 Visual information is transformed through a series of processing stages involving visual, phonological and episodic memory systems until it is finally comprehended in the semantic system. 1992 New Scientist 21 Nov. (Secret Life of Brain Suppl.) 4/1 Your conversation involves: semantic memory..and episodic memory, your memory of the day itself. 2007 New Yorker 24 Sept. 104/3 Yet semantic memory of this sort, even if completely intact, is not of much use in the absence of explicit, episodic memory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1711 |
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