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单词 in infinitum
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in infinitumadv.

Brit. /ɪn ˌɪnfᵻˈnʌɪtəm/, U.S. /ˌɪn ˌɪnfəˈnaɪdəm/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin in infinītum.
Etymology: < classical Latin in infinītum < in in prep. + infinītum infinite n.
To infinity; again and again in the same way; endlessly, forever; = ad infinitum adv.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [adverb]
without metc1175
unendlyc1230
endless138.
infinitely1413
interminably1447
incomprehensibly1531
in infinitum1564
ad infinitum1596
unboundably1607
unlimitedly1609
illimitedlya1631
unconfinedly1655
boundlessly1674
unbeginningly1674
illimitably1755
infinitesimally1801
limitlessly1834
measurelessly1839
1564 E. Grindal Serm. Funeral Prince Ferdinandus 4 And so in infinitum, until all years and days be clean past and expired.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 60 He will welcome me with a fierce reioynder:..& so forth in infinitum, with an vndauntable courage.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §37 As for the Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth [sc. concords in music], and so in infinitum; they be but Recurrences of the Former.
1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. iii. 146 Each of these parts is divisible..into other corporeal parts, lesser and lesser, in infinitum.
1713 I. Newton Let. 28 Mar. in Corr. (1975) V. 397 The attracted body will drive the other before it & both will go away together with an accelerated motion in infinitum.
1790 T. Reid Lett. to J. Gregory in Wks. (1846) 86/1 Diminish the time, in infinitum, and the effect of a centripetal force is diminished in infinitum.
1836 A. Bryan Treat. on Lang. xvi. 189 If we adopt the Indian tradition that the world rests on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise, we must still find something for the tortoise to rest on; and so in infinitum.
1891 K. Hillebrand tr. A. Schopenhauer Fourfold Root of Princ. Sufficient Reason (new ed.) 42 Every cause is a change, which necessarily obliges us to ask for the preceding change that brought it about, and so on in infinitum, in infinitum!
1969 R. Kelly Common Shore 84 Granted a long enough space of time we can see again the visible disc of the sun in heaven the exact destinations of each & every arc of road, & so on in infinitum.
2009 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 14 This scene will be repeated in infinitum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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