单词 | incogitative |
释义 | incogitativeadj. rare. Unthinking; destitute of the thinking faculty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [adjective] unfurnished1549 vacant1579 thoughtless1594 thoughtfree1652 unthinking1688 incogitative1690 incogitant1702 fanciless1753 vacuous1854 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. x. 314 There are but two sorts of Beings in the World..which..we will hereafter call cogitative and incogitative Beings. 1706 S. Clarke Disc. Nat. Relig. sig. A8 From my using the Word Mere Matter, he concludes..that I imagine there is another sort of Matter, which is not a mere, bare, pure, incogitative Matter. 1813 T. Busby in tr. Lucretius Nature of Things I. iii. Comm. xiv If the seeds of heat, air, and vapour are as positively incogitative as those of the body. Derivatives inˌcogitaˈtivity n. rare the quality of being incogitative or without the faculty of thought. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [noun] vacuity1593 incogitancy1649 unthinkingnessa1695 incogitativity1722 vacancy1752 unthought1866 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 191 Is the same in effect as to say, that God may superadd a faculty of thinking to incogitativity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1690 |
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