单词 | animadversion |
释义 | animadversionn. The action or process of animadverting, or the result of this. I. Judicial or critical attention. 1. The action of taking judicial notice of offences and inflicting punishment. Now historical.In quot. 1750 (concrete): †an event that inflicts harm, apparently as a punishment (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > action of inflicting punishingc1375 punition1405 executionc1430 justifying1487 inflictiona1535 animadversion1535 penalization1888 woodshedding1940 1535 Stat. 27 Hen. VIII (1557) c. 23, f. xxv.v The kynges maiestie myndyng..the animaduertion & correction of the sayed offendours. 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 32 That is matter sufficient to serue a magistrates animaduersion. 1624 T. Scott 2nd Pt. Vox Populi 28 It is likely to goe worse with the Catholiques then euer, as who must expect no fauour, but must prepare themselues to vndergo the sharpest censure, and animaduersion of the Law against them. 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 65 O wish rather the animadversion to fall upon your bodies and estates. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 157 A [ecclesiastical] Censure has a relation to a Spiritual Punishment, but an [ecclesiastical] Animadversion has only a respect to a Temporal one, as Degradation, and the Delivering of a Person over to the Secular Court. 1750 J. Wesley Cause & Cure Earthquakes 16 Of all Divine Animadversions, there is none more horrid..than this [sc. an earthquake]. 1837 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VI. xlvii. 409 A power whose lightest measure of animadversion would be banishment. 1901 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 18 Oct. 10/3 This ordinance comes within the animadversion of our Court of Criminal Appeals. 1941 Internat. Law Rep. 10 (1987) 167 We certainly see nothing in the course taken by the district court..which calls for animadversion. 2000 William & Mary Law Rev. (Nexis) 1 Dec. In England, such ‘animadversion’ involved criminal sanctions for a handful of such offenses. 2. a. concrete. Usually in plural. A criticism, comment, observation, or remark (typically implying censure). Chiefly with on (also upon). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of animadversion1583 stricture1655 animadverting1665 animadvertence1681 autopsy1835 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. v. 151 What say you to Philippus Montanus..in his animaduersions vpon Theophlyactes translation. 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 2 My petye animadversions, vppon the annotacions and corrections deliuered by master Thomas Speghte vppon the last editione of Chaucers Workes. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 122 Thus hauing stitched in some sort together, these Animaduersions, touching Architecture, and the Ornaments thereof; I now feele that contemplatiue spirits are as restlesse as actiue. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 162 His incomparable animadversions on God's love to mankind. 1758 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 498 Our landlady and her maids making animadversions on our conduct. 1791 Conduct of Excise towards Breweries in Scotl. 78 We shall close the disagreeable task of making animadversions on the conduct of individuals, with one other anecdote. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. vii. 420 He made some sharp animadversions on this ode. 1961 L. Ginsberg Let. 9 Dec. in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business (2001) 170 I observed your animadversions on [Henry] Miller's sex descriptions. 2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle i. v. 88 I don't know what she was saying—..making some sort of animadversion on the state of the roads or Tommy's driving. b. The utterance of criticism, usually of a hostile kind; censure, reproof, blame. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] faultingc1450 animadversion1599 criticism1607 reflection1636 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 68 Fyve especiall thinges, woorthye the animadversione. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. iv. 420 He hath done more worthy of dispraise and animadversion, then worthy of commendation. 1680 R. Ferguson Let. to Person of Honour in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 84 Could not possibly escape the Animadversion of the House. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 155. ⁋1 No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion. 1785 Address (Soc. for Constit. Information) 3 June in Polit. Papers Reformation Parl. II. 509 We should be wanting..were we to suffer such events to pass without animadversion, without exposing their dangerous tendency. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iii. 107 A perfect liberty of animadversion upon clerical conduct. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation § i. 5 Our temper at this moment should not be one of animadversion and cavil. 1906 Times 11 Oct. 10/3 Any regulation of the marriage state..has, during recent years, been made the subject of frequent, special animadversion. 1955 J. E. A. Jolliffe Angevin Kingship xiv. 317 Any major clash between the King and his bishops began to draw upon him the Pope's immediate animadversion. 1992 Matrix Fall 45/2 I was at the time a loyal Dudekin,..heaping scorn and animadversion on the company of mad Laytonians. 3. The action or an act of calling the attention of others. Also: notice, warning; an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [noun] > forewarn or forewarning advertisementc1475 premonition1533 forewarning1548 premonishment?1548 animadversion1567 monition1694 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest iii. f. 102v That kinde of diuination which is marked by euent, or animaduersion, is not naturall but artificiall. 1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method. i. i, f. 5v By these and such like animadversions, it is knowne whether the skull be fractured or not. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iii. vi. 161 His excellency had animadversion from the Committee..of incursions made by the Kings horse. 1699 H. Neville Remarks upon Antimonarchical Authors Introd. sig. B The first Design of my putting Pen to Paper, was only to correct the Licentiousness of Paper and Pen, and to supply with a timely animadversion, the Expiration of a temporary Act. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 42 They all knew Cæsar's fate, by contemning, or neglecting Such animadversions. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 443. ⁋7 Another timely Animadversion is absolutely necessary. 4. The action or an act of turning the attention to a subject; the observation or consideration of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [noun] > turning one's mind to rewardingc1384 considering1483 inclination1509 consideration1548 animadversion1573 attendancya1600 notice-taking1614 mind1916 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [noun] marka1400 notea1400 notinga1427 markingc1443 viewc1450 noticec1487 observation1547 observancy1567 animadversion1573 observance1602 remark1614 remarking?1626 notification1659 observala1734 observe1830 1573 T. Twyne tr. H. Llwyd Breuiary of Britayne Pref. sig. A vi If there shall haply appeare any fault, by vs now committed,..the truth wherof I coulde not exactly try out, by diligent animaduersion..I most hartely craue pardon. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. E2 I haue no meaning..to make any exact animaduersion of the errors and impediments in matters of learning. View more context for this quotation a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 63 The due animadversion and inspection of their own Minds. 1738 in J. Keill Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) Pref. p. xxx Accurate Animadversion and Comparison of..the Appearances. 1809 R. Hunt in G. E. Bentley William Blake (1975) ii. xiv. 66 An unfortunate lunatic..of whom no public notice would have been taken, if he was not forced on the notice and animadversion of the Examiner. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 61 Returning to an animadversion of the present transactions. 1854 W. Shaw Land of Promise 40 ‘Government emigrants’ have likewise come under the animadversion of the colonist. 5. The capability or habit of noticing or observing; conscious mental action; attention, perception. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] anyitOE eyesightc1175 sightc1175 sentimentc1374 mindc1384 intentc1386 fantasyc1400 savoura1425 spiritsc1450 perceiverancea1500 perceiverationa1500 senses1528 perceivance1534 sense1553 kenc1560 mind-sight1587 knowledge1590 fancy1593 animadversion1596 cognition1651 awaring1674 perception1678 scan1838 apperception1848 perceivedness1871 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [noun] > faculty or quality of seeing eye1579 animadversion1596 observation1605 animadversal1647 observancya1871 observantness1909 1596 E. Coote Eng. Schoole-maister (at cited word) Animadversion, noting. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 122 The vnsatiate Sparrow..Foretels true things by animaduertion. 1682 H. More in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (ed. 2) 32 For in an infinite Life as God is, there can be no distraction his animadversion necessarily being infinite. 1682 G. Rust Disc. Truth 177 Food which without their intention or animadversion is concocted in their Ventricle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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