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单词 instrumentary
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instrumentaryadj.

Brit. /ˌɪnstrᵿˈmɛnt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛn(t)əri/
Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s instrumentarie, 1500s– instrumentary.

β. Scottish pre-1700 instrumentar.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: instrument n., -ary suffix1.
Etymology: < instrument n. + -ary suffix1.Compare post-classical Latin instrumentarius (12th cent.), Middle French, French instrumentaire that serves as a means (perhaps 16th cent.; 1477 as noun in sense ‘person who plays a musical instrument’). Compare earlier instrumental adj. With the β. forms compare -ar suffix2.
Now rare.
1. Of a part of the body: that performs a special function; that is an organ. Also: of or relating to an organ. Obsolete.Cf. instrumental adj. 2, which is more common.
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the world > life > the body > system > [adjective] > organ > having function
instrumental?a1425
organicalc1450
instrumentary1564
instrumentarian1649
functional1841
1564 P. Moore Hope of Health i. iv. 7 All other instrumentarie members besides these foure, are lesse principall.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. ix. 348 As it is an instrumentarie dissease, to wit, with flesh too prowdly growing, it is to bee dealt withall with medicines.
1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. ii. 9 The veines and arteries are instrumentary parts.
1786 J. Aitken Princ. Anat. & Physiol. II. 121 The Author of Nature has in the most wonderful manner adapted the instrumentary parts of every animal to the specific qualities of the brain.
2. Of the nature of or serving as an instrument or means; = instrumental adj. 1a. Also: of or relating to an instrument or means. rare after 17th cent.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adjective] > instrumental
instrumentala1398
mediate?1504
organic1509
ministerial?1544
instrumentaryc1595
organical1605
subservient1624
ministering1886
c1595 H. Garnet Expos. Certaine Questions in tr. P. Canisius Summe Christian Doctr. 675 The Sacramente is an instrument of Christes eternall Priesthoode, in which he himselfe remitteth sinnes by the instrumentary ministery of his priest.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Epist. First Chapter Paul to Ephesians (1618) 386 This opinion maketh the diuine properties become instrumentary faculties, as it were to a finite nature.
1642 Declar. Lords & Commons setting forth Grounds to take up Defensive Arms 3 Aug. 6 Made use of..as instrumentary and subservient to it.
1657 M. Lawrence Use & Pract. Faith 83 Faith doth not justifie by merit..but onely by the instrumentary application of Christ's righteousness.
1809 Edinb. Advertiser 10 Feb. To Dugald Kennedy..and Angus Mackay..for constructing, and being instrumentary in introducing into the district of Kintyre, Argyllshire, Machines for Carding Wool—Twenty Guineas.
1871 C. Hodge Systematic Theol. III. iii. xv. 31 Nothing in the way of instrumentary or secondary coöperating influence intervened between the divine volition and the effect.
a1919 R. A. Webb Christian Salvation (1921) xxvii. 372 Faith, laying hold of that righteousness, causes, in an instrumentary way, the just to live.
1994 G. McCulloch Educ. Reconstruction iii. 22 The elementary schools were intended to focus on a limited range of instrumentary areas of instruction.
3. Law (chiefly Scots Law). Of or relating to a legal instrument, such as a contract or deed (see instrument n. 2a). Chiefly in instrumentary witness n. a person who witnesses a deed.
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society > law > legal document > [noun] > attestation of document > one who
witnessa1122
instrumentary witnessc1600
attester1837
attestant1880
c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 383 Albeit the remanent of the witnessis instrumentar, beand of greiter nombre, depone or say aganis the samin.
1686 G. Mackenzie Observ. Acts Parl. 194 These Instrumentary witnesses are presum'd to have been chosen by consent.
1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. 176 Witnesses in written Contracts, called Instrumentary witnesses.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iv. ii. 666 Offered to be proved by the oaths of the procurator and instrumentary witnesses.
1795 C. Runnington Hist. Legal Remedy by Ejectm. 362 Of all the species of instrumentary evidence, that of the sworn copy of a register, is the most dangerous.
1816 Scots Mag. Nov. 871/2 The said Earl put his name to the deeds under reduction, in presence of one instrumentary witness.
1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §139 It shall be competent for any Female Person..to act as an instrumentary Witness in the same Manner as any Male Person.
1988 Sc. Law Comm.: Rep. on Requirem. Writing v. 49 in Parl. Papers 1987–8 (H.C. 551) It is at present a requirement of Scots law that an instrumentary witness should be 14 years of age or over.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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