单词 | individuate |
释义 | individuateadj. 1. That is or has been made individual; individualized; = individuated adj. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adjective] > individualized individuate1606 singularized1614 individuated1645 individualized1817 1606 J. Ford Honor Triumphant sig. D3v Bewty, matched with the indiuiduat adiunct unsoyled constancy. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 156 Circumstances, individuate actions, and the innocency of the Lamb. 1681 R. Baxter Acct. Sherlocke vi. 216 Perhaps you think that as Averrhois thought all Souls are one, individuate only by receptive matter [etc.]. 1752 M. Browne Sunday Thoughts (new ed.) iii, in Wks. & Rest of Creation 223 Nor shall it serve thy smallest Good, if told In what strange Way unbodied Mind subsists: Remaining Individuate (best to think) Or in one universal Flux convolv'd. 1996 Winnicott Stud. 11 91 This will have prevented the growing child from a successful experience of separating from her mother and developing an individuate self. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > not divided, separated, or split > incapable of being divided indivisiblec1380 indepartable1393 unpartable?c1425 undivisible1495 inseparable?1504 unpartible?c1510 undividible1569 impartible1586 undissoluble1587 individable1601 undividual1603 undissolvable1611 individuate1621 insecable1623 individuous1624 insectile1635 indispertiblea1641 indisseverablea1641 individuated1689 indivisivea1706 partless1705 unanalysable1788 imparticipable1789 indecomposable1807 indecomponible1809 indissoluble1841 disseparablea1849 1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie 34 Touching the Indiuiduate essence of God. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 61 Mildnesse is a qualitie so inherent, or more properly individuate to a Gentleman. 1724 E. Tollet Poems Several Occasions 66 O thou the Third in that eternal Trine! In individuate Unity divine! 1891 Lucifer 15 Aug. 471 This process of sublimation may fairly be conceived of as continuing until he has become altogether sublimed, and is one in condition, as well as in substance, with the whole of which he is now an individuate part. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). individuatev. 1. transitive. To give an individual character to; to distinguish from others of the same kind; to individualize; to single out, to specify. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [verb (transitive)] > individualize individuate1614 individualize1637 individuifya1661 1614 [implied in: J. Selden Titles of Honor Pref. sig. b4 Its thought, that, in the Seed are alwaies potentially seuerall indiuiduating Qualities deriu'd from diuers of the neere Ancestors. (at individuating adj.)]. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 43 Whereby men are most specially specificated and individuated. 1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen 118 Such Peculiarities..as individuate Peter and Paul as to their Bodies. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. v. 136 In Peter, James, and John, you may observe in each a certain Collection of Stature, Figure, Colour, and other peculiar Properties by which they are known asunder, distinguished from all other Men, and, if I may so say, individuated. 1794 C. Plowden Remarks Mem. G. Panzani i. 147 The bitterest enemies of the seminarists..are reduced to confine themselves to general imputations of treason; they cannot individuate a single fact. 1802 P. L. Courtier Pleasures of Solitude (ed. 2) 13 The heart, that loves its object to select, To individuate [1800 individualize]. 1847 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 1st Ser. (ed. 3) 157 That in which he differs and is distinguisht from other men, is his individuality, and individuates or individualizes him. 1913 J. Royce Probl. Christianity II. ix. 24 We..seem to be individuated by our deeds. 1983 Times 1 Mar. 13/2 That personal responsibility which individuates him from the crowd. 2009 D. C. Russell Pract. Intelligence & Virtues v. 174 No theory of the virtues that individuates the virtues by context can be grounded in ethical naturalism. 2. transitive. To form into an individual or distinct entity; to give individual form or structure to. Also with into. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [verb (transitive)] > make into an individual individuate1625 1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 186 Some actions..are indifferent: but cloathed with circumstances, and indiuiduated by the actuall working of a particular Agent. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. i. 274 There was a seminality and contracted Adam in the rib, which by the information of a soule, was individuated into Eve. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. ix. 82 Life being individuated into such infinite numbers that have their distinct sense and pleasure. 1703 Athenian Oracle I. 210/1 Any Portion of Matter duly qualified, and united to the Soul by such a Union as we experience, though we can't well explain, is immediately individuated by it. 1864 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 9 This symbolism of language, which individuates a man's private memories. 1941 Jrnl. Philos. 38 202 Body is the stuff which may express or embody the traits of mind, individuating it into you and me who are ‘this flesh and these bones’. 2003 Criticism 45 234 To be a type is to individuate the social type, stock character, or stereotype. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > own [verb (transitive)] > own individually > appropriate to an individual improperc1380 impropry1526 impropriate1567 individuate1641 individualize1863 1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. 207 Neither [do they] individuate the same to themselves. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Gal. ii. 20) 189 True faith individuateth Christ, and appropriateth him to a mans self. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1606v.1614 |
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