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单词 entity
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entityn.

/ˈɛntɪti/
Forms: 1600s entitie, entitye, ( entite), 1600s– entity.
Etymology: < late Latin entitāt-em, < ēns , entis : see ens n. Compare French entité, Italian entità, Spanish entitad. The original sense was abstract, but, in accordance with the usual tendency of such words, it early acquired a concrete sense (= ens n.), which predominates in modern use.
1. Being, existence, as opposed to non-existence; the existence, as distinguished from the qualities or relations, of anything.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun]
being1340
statec1384
essencion?a1400
existencea1425
essencya1475
existency1548
essentie1552
essence1576
entity1596
existing1616
esse1621
beingness1662
the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > entity, being, or thing
thingeOE
warec1200
beinga1393
matterc1450
body1587
essence1587
entity1596
existence1605
existency1628
existent1635
essency1647
exister1700
beënt1865
thang1932
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. ix. 372 God..is the principall agent of the real and positiue entities thereof.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. O7 Both Night and Coldnesse..have reall entitie.
1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 103 Entity is better than non-entity.
1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §81 The positive abstract idea of quiddity, entity, or existence.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 108 In the το ὀν and the το μη ὀν, that is to say, in entity and nonentity.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. iii. 189 Entity or real being.
2. That which constitutes the being of a thing; essence, essential nature.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
roota1325
substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
sum and substance1572
alloy1594
soul1598
inwardness1605
quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie vii. 54 He, that is, his Entite, person, even all that went to make him man.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 97 Deare Hope!.. The entity of things that are not yet.
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) i. ii. 16 It is impossible any Thing should Be..without a Nature or Entity.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 399 For the entity of all theoretical truth is nothing else but clear intelligibility.
3.
a. concrete. Something that has a real existence; an ens n., as distinguished from a mere function, attribute, relation, etc. rational entity n. = Latin ens rationis, a thing which has an existence only as an object of reason.
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1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 209 The specificall difference is a rationall entitie and no more.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 22 This Death..is neither a Substance, nor a Positive Entity, but a meer Privation.
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 139 'Till it becomes an ideal Entity, like the Utopia.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. v. x. 626 No effort of imagination enables us to think of a shock, however minute, except as undergone by an entity.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. vii. 228 Those..must look at species either as separate creations or..distinct entities.
b. An actual quantity (however small). Obsolete.
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1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §123 Eruptions of Aire, though small and slight, give an Entitie of Sound.
c. (See quot. 1881.)
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1881 Spottiswoode in Nature No. 624. 572 In some tubes, the exhaustion of which is very moderate..the blocks of light termed entities by Mr. De La Rue are formed.
4. indefinitely. What exists; ‘being’ generally.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > that which exists
entity1604
essential1667
instant1677
ent188.
is1897
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. xiiii. 40 Our knowledge were equall to vniuersall entitie.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 56 We be but Mites of Entity, and Crumbs of something.
1699 S. Garth Dispensary i. 3 How the dim speck of Entity began T'extend its recent Form, and stretch to Man.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) ii. 31 He has become..infinitely less than an atom..an incalculable fraction of positive entity!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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