单词 | imperceiverant |
释义 | imperceiverantadj. rare. Lacking in perception; imperceptive (of something).Quot. 1844 shows Dyce's suggested emendation of imperseverant in Shakespeare's Cymbeline: see quot. a1616 at imperseverant adj. and discussion at that entry. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] blinda1400 unchoosinga1586 undiscerning1589 unrespective1609 irrespecting1625 promiscuous1633 incurious1645 indistinct1650 irrespective1650 uncritical1659 indiscerning1664 undistinguishing1665 undistinguishable1702 unrefining1735 indiscriminating1754 undiscriminating1776 indiscriminate1792 unfastidious1816 rough1819 lumping1827 indistinguishing1828 unparticularizing1828 farraginous1837 imperceiverant1844 scattergun1845 undistinctive1851 indiscriminative1854 unselecting1895 scattershot1961 1844 A. Dyce Remarks on Collier's & Knight's Eds. of Shakespeare 258 The right reading [of imperseverant] (according to modern orthography) is undoubtedly ‘this imperceiverant thing’, i.e. ‘this thing without the power of perceiving my superiority to Posthumus’. 1906 N.Y. Times 18 Mar. 10/6 His mind is imperceiverant, and therefore incapable of dreaming dreams while awake. 2002 G. E. Clarke Odysseys Home 68 Philip is imperceiverant of the existence of early African-Canadian texts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1844 |
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