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单词 imperate
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imperateadj.

Brit. /ˈɪmp(ə)rət/, U.S. /ˈɪmpəˌreɪt/, /ˈɪmpərət/
Forms: 1500s– imperate; also Scottish pre-1700 imperat.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin imperātus, imperāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin imperātus, past participle of imperāre to command, rule (see imperate v.).
Now rare.
1. As past participle: commanded, ruled. Cf. imperate v. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 101 He..reigned had and imperate, In Brytain.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 40 It salbe sa, as I haif Imperat.
2. Philosophy and Theology. Designating an action which is commanded or determined by the will but exercised by some other faculty of the mind or body (in contrast to an action emerging directly from the will, such as willing, choosing, etc.); (more widely) designating an external action which can be demanded of someone (such as a religious observance) in contrast to an internal one which cannot (such as religious belief). Also: designating an action done to promote or facilitate the exercising of a particular virtue, as opposed to one which is a necessary or proper result of the virtue itself. Cf. imperated adj.In all uses imperate actions are contrasted with elicit ones; see elicit adj.In quot. a1676 as past participle.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adjective] > dependent upon will or inclination
imperated1535
arbitrary1574
imperate1624
electitious1631
discretionary1643
arbitrarious1647
discretional1653
arbitral1662
discretionable1750
eligible1769
permissory1909
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 544 All the actions elicite or imperate, which a sinner must performe..that God may be pacified.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. §6. 411 Thus to deny the impure sollicitations of an unchast person is a proper, an elicite act of the vertue of chastity; but to lie upon the ground, to wear an hairen shirt, to use disciplines, to roll our naked body upon thornes, to sleep in snowes are imperate acts, that is, such which the vertue may chuse and exercise for its own advantage and interest.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 30 They are not acts that are imperate by the Will.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence iii. 135 By the Will those Motions or Operations (Imperate Acts as they are call'd) which are performed by the mediation of the Body.
a1738 H. Grove Syst. Moral Philos. (1749) I. ii. vi. 255 The actions under the command of the Will, and those only, are free, and being under command are imperate not elicit.
1824 A. Burton Ess. First Princ. Metaphysicks, Ethicks, & Theol. xxv. 238 As those principles, whether called principles or immanent exercises, are antecedent to volitions, or what they denominate imperate exercises, vice and virtue must be primarily seated in these principles.
1880 Catholic World Jan. 442/1 The will by an imperate act commands the assent of the intellect to the truth revealed by God.
1919 Boston Coll. Catal. 45 Violence, strictly so-called, excludes all voluntariness; the will can only suffer violence in regard to imperate acts.
1949 J. Higgins Man as Man iii. 31 Imperate acts are spoken of as free because they result from the will's free choice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

imperatev.

Brit. /ˈɪmpəreɪt/, U.S. /ˈɪmpəˌreɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin imperāt-, imperāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin imperāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of imperāre to order, to command, to rule < im- im- prefix1 + parāre to prepare (see pare v.1). Compare earlier imperate adj., imperated adj., empire v.Compare Old French (rare) emperer, Middle French, French †imperer to rule, govern (13th cent.).
Chiefly Theology in later use.
transitive. To rule, govern (something); to command (a person or thing); to direct or motivate (esp. an act or action). Cf. imperate adj. 2.Now esp. associated with the doctrine of St Thomas Aquinas and his followers.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > have command [verb (intransitive)]
imperate1598
command1603
society > authority > command > have command over [verb (transitive)]
command1382
imperate1598
1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie xxxvi. 213 It is the shadow (replied Don Bellianis) of that celistial substance, that imperates my heart and soule [It. che è patrona del cuor mio], and therfore do I continually bear it with me.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 109/2 He hath ordaynede for the Patiente this pectoralle Conserve..and imperated [Ger. beuehlen] him without cessatione to vse the same, both Day and night.
1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies i. 54 There be duties..imperated or governed by religion.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 13 in Justice Vindicated My will is that which imperates all my actions.
1889 R. S. Foster Prolegomena vii. 211 The area of belief, that..excludes all things that contradict, not that are beyond, our personal knowledge... No proof can rise above these, so as to imperate belief in the contradictory proposition.
1946 J. M. Egan & W. D. Hughes tr. John of St. Thomas Gifts Holy Ghost vi in Thomist 9 282 Piety does not imperate acts of virtue but elicits them in an eminent way.
1967 Furrow 18 168 To pay a just debt, though it can and should be imperated by charity, is essentially an act of justice.
2002 B. J. Shanley Thomist Trad. ii. 33 The act of the will that precedes and imperates faith is not yet the love of charity but rather an intention or desire to love.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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