单词 | integrative |
释义 | integrativeadj. Having the quality of integrating; tending to integrate. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [adjective] > combining consolidating1707 amalgamating1809 synthesizing1830 amalgamative1841 integrative1867 synthetizing1892 1867 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 2) ii. xiii. §105. 304 This chapter opened by briefly specifying the conditions under which Evolution is integrative only. 1879 W. E. Hearn Aryan Househ. (new ed.) 262 Public opinion, and afterwards positive law, forbad that any Hellên, or any Quirite, should be reduced to slavery. But the integrative tendency went no further. 1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. (title) The integrative action of the nervous system. 1937 G. W. Allport Personality (1938) ii. v. 138 Whatever condition makes for mental health is called ‘integrative’, whatever condition makes for mental difficulty is called ‘disintegrative’. 1937 H. H. Anderson in Jrnl. Soc. Psychol. VIII. 335 (title) An experimental study of dominative and integrative behavior in children of preschool age. 1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action iv. 91 What we may call integrative emotions, like love. 1957 M. Banton West Afr. City ix. 179 Up to this point the integrative effects of the companies have been stressed. 1967 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. LXI. 91 Far from finding a stagnation of integrative processes since 1958, I would argue that..European integration may have moved into full gear only since 1958. 1972 World Archaeol. III. 231 He [sc. V. G. Childe] saw culture as an essentially integrative device. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1867 |
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