单词 | geometral |
释义 | geometraladj. rare before late 20th cent. = geometrical adj. 1a.In later use chiefly with reference to French géométral in the writings of J. M. E. Lacan (1901–81), French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective] > geometrically drawn geometral1688 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Ddv/3 Un Plan Geometral, a Geometral Draught. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Geometral, pertaining to geometry. 1817 J. M. O'Connor Treat. Sci. War & Fortification II. iii. ii. 28 It is always practicable to draw the front by a geometral or graphical construction. 1990 E. A. Grosz Jacques Lacan iii. 78 For Lacan, the drive is located somewhere between the eye and the gaze... The gaze demonstrates the excess of the drive over geometrical or in Lacan's term, ‘geometral’ or flat optics, a perspectival optics. 1994 J. Elkins Poetics of Perspective vi. 251 Anamorphic configurations employing the geometral point, image, and object would disrupt the chiasmatic diagram. 2008 D. Torlasco Time Crime i. 28 A space constructed according to geometral laws and inhabited by symbols of knowledge and social privilege. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1688 |
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