单词 | instinctive |
释义 | instinctiveadj.adv. a. Of the nature of instinct; operating by or resulting from instinct or innate prompting. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > natural impulse, instinct > [adjective] untaughtc1445 habitual1526 natural1575 intestine1583 instinctivea1656 intestinala1861 primitive1910 instinctual1924 gut level1962 a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) i. vi. 38 Have we had instinctive intimations of the death of some absent friends..who but our Angels hath wrought it? a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV c, in Poems (1878) IV. 26 From Instinctive Causes, and the strict Impresse of Nature, none must Life neglect. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 410 So powerfull is the instinctive fondness natural to Parents! 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. iv. 262 The alternation of the lower limbs is instinctive in man. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species viii. 207 An action, which we ourselves should require experience to enable us to perform, when performed by an animal..without any experience, and when performed by many individuals in the same way, without their knowing for what purpose it is performed, is usually said to be instinctive. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner xii. 217 Her arms did not yet relax their instinctive clutch. b. poetic as adv. = instinctively adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > natural impulse, instinct > [adverb] naturallyc1390 naturallyc1395 instinctivelya1616 voluntarily1700 instinctive1716 off the wall1966 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 544 Swifter than Thought the Wheels instinctive fly. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 66 Instinctive every soul Flew to its clayey part. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.a1656 |
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