单词 | facilitating |
释义 | facilitatingn. The action or process of making something easy or easier, or of assisting to bring about a particular end or result; facilitation; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. f. 42v The Phisitions..ought both to enquire the skill, and to giue the attendances for the facilitating & asswaging of the paynes and agonies of death. View more context for this quotation 1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 3 Which would haue beene..a facillitating of any enterprise, which..that Earle was ever..vndertaking against him. 1705 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 261 A profitable project of making engines for facilitating of smith work. 1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. iii. 58 This practice is not only effectual to the facilitating of the versification, but also to the prevention of satiety by varying the sounds. 1821 N. Amer. Rev. July 145 The facilitating of the water carriage from the upper portions of the state to the coast. 1849 R. M. Martin Railways, Past, Present & Prospective 57 A facilitating and economising of personal transit, and of mercantile traffic, which has augmented individual and national wealth. 1877 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 40 524 The recognition, legalisation, and facilitating of vice, end in promoting it. 1931 J. P. Lichtenberger Divorce ii. xi. 286 It is quite possible..for the wife to be able to contribute..her share to the family well-being by devoting herself to the successful management of her household, the bearing and rearing of children, and the facilitating of social amenities. 1979 J. C. Ickis Strategy Family Planning Promotion El Salvador in J. D. Montgomery et al. Patterns of Policy i. ii. 63 His program included..legislation providing worker benefits, and the facilitating of subsidized benefits to small farmers. 1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 38/4 Another full day of facilitating and innovating..and applying the lessons of a lifetime in business to the fuzzier world of charity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). facilitatingadj. That facilitates (in various senses of the verb); that makes an action, process, etc., easy or easier, or assists in bringing about a particular end or result. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > making easy facilitating1659 facilitative1859 facilitatory1867 1659 W. Retchford tr. D. Dickson Expos. St. Pauls Epist. To Rdr. A3v How many facilitating and perasceuastical exercises young Clients to Divinity must run thorow. 1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. iv. 171 Rectifying..errours..by the assistance of such facilitating helps. 1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. iv. 155 These facilitating circumstances. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude III. xxxvii. 257 He encouraged the young intellect to shoot vigorously, without the exhausting impulse of facilitating methods. 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 151 Undoubtedly habit is a great facilitating principle. 1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. v. 175 Minimal electrical stimuli applied..to the fore-limb region of the rabbit's cortex and to the skin of the crossed foot, exerted a facilitating influence, ‘bahnung’, on each other. 1971 J. I. Barish in S. C. Feinstein et al. Adolescent Psychiatry I. v. xxv. 531 We can assume that..[he] responded in facilitating ways to Kenny's self-presentation, guiding himself by his understanding of Kenny's need. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Apr. 9/4 It is true that governments did not actively promote industrialization, but..they played a crucial facilitating role. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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