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单词 gnomonic
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gnomonicadj.n.

Brit. /nəʊˈmɒnɪk/, U.S. /noʊˈmɑnɪk/
Forms: Also 1600s gnomonicke, gnomonique.
Etymology: < Latin gnōmonicus (French gnomonique ), < Greek γνωμονικός , < γνώμων gnomon n.
A. adj.
1.
a. Pertaining to the gnomon or sun-dial, or to the measuring of time, etc. by means of this. gnomonic column (see quot. 1728).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [adjective] > of or relating to sundials
gnomonical1570
gnomonic1601
sandy1607
gnomical1611
stylar1614
sciatherical1615
direct1659
skiagraphical1690
sciatheric1700
solar1728
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 35 The Gnomonicke art.
1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5151 The whole Science Gnomonique.
1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 154 [He] may have given him a Dial furnish'd with a Magnetic Needle, rather than an Ordinary Gnomonic [Wks. 1744 IV. 539/1 gnomical] Dial.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Column Gnomonic Column, a Cylinder, whereon the Hour of the Day is represented by the Shadow of a Style.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 632 The gnomonic phenomena of the year of complete days recurred at the interval of this cycle.
b. gnomonic projection n. (See quot. 1866.)The principle of gnomonic projection is especially used in the construction of star maps.
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1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos A iv b With the Laws of the..Gnomonic Projection of the Sphere.
1858 (title) Stanford's maps of the paths of comets..drawn by J. Breen on six maps on the gnomonic projection.
1866 R. A. Proctor Handbk. Stars 16 The first point we meet with suitable for a centre of projection is the centre of the sphere. A projection having this point as centre is called gnomonic from its relation to the art of dialling.
2. transferred in nonce-uses.
a. That indicates like a gnomon.
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1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 79 Spurzheim's Cranioscopy (a scheme, the indicative or gnomonic parts of which have a stronger support in facts than the theory in reason or common sense).
b. Resembling a gnomon (cf. gnomon n. 1c).
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1859 L. F. Simpson Handbk. Dining (1865) xi. 111 M. H. R. turned his gnomonic nose to the west.
3. ? Misused for gnomic adj.1 (But cf. gnomon n. 4.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective]
sententiala1475
sententious1542
topic1581
apophthegmatical?1589
topical1594
adagial1647
aphoristical1661
gnomonic1706
axiomatical1738
gnomologic1751
aphoristic1753
maximical1779
apophthegmatic1796
aphorismic1798
gnomic1815
aphorismatic1822
axiomatic1835
maximic1854
aphorismical1880
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gnomonick, full of Sentences, as the Gnomonick Poets, Writers of Sententious Verses.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist i. §1. 6 The Jewish sages..made use of apologues, and uttered gnomonic sayings.
1884 Church Times 569/1 It is easy to fish a gnomonic saying out of the voluminous writings of the Fathers.
B. n.
1. Plural gnomonics (rarely singular gnomonic = Latin gnōmonica, -icē, Greek γνωμονική): the art of dialling. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [noun] > dialling
dialling1570
gnomonic1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gnomonick, the Art of Dyalling; consisting in the knowledge of the scituation, lying or measure of any place or Country.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 269 The Cylindrical Dyal in Corpus Christi College Quadrangle..is a fine old piece of Gnomonicks.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Gnomonica, Gnomonice, or Gnomonicks, the Art of Dialling; or of drawing Sun and Moon Dials, &c., on any given Plane.
1792 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. (new ed.) I. 79 One part of this [astrology] is gnomonics, which is exercised in settling the dimension of the horary gnomons.
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 155 Another important result of the doctrine of the sphere was Gnomonick or Dialling.
1876 H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke I. ii. 56 He lectured..also on optics and gnomonics.
2. ¶ A gnomic verse. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. A. 3.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > didactic poem > gnomic poem
gnomonic1688
1688 J. Ogilby tr. G. de Magaillans Hist. China 96 There are also several Gnomonics or Verses containing Precepts, which are sung at their Funerals.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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