单词 | kat exochen |
释义 | kat' exochenadv. Now rare. Pre-eminently, ‘par excellence’.The phrase is usually found in untransliterated Greek characters. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adverb] highlyOE overalla1225 with the firstc1300 principally1340 principalc1390 in principala1393 chiefly14.. ratherestc1400 rathestc1400 primarily1587 kat' exochen1588 paravant1590 pre-eminently1590 primely1610 cardinally1631 transeminently1642 paramountly1798 par eminence1823 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike To Rdr. sig. ¶¶v The Romayne Lawe, which Iustinian calleth the Cyuill law κατ'εξοχην, (as Homer is called the Poet). a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 621 Infidelitie called in holy Scripture sinne catexochen. a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 866 And this day is termed here catexochen the day. a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iii. i. 7 in 3 New Playes (1655) You are a lover already, Be a drunkard too, and after turn small Poet, And then you are mad Katexikene, the Madman. 1698 J. Sergeant Non Vltra 45 Which Propositions being..most Fully and Properly such, we do therefore, κατ' ἐξοχην, call Identical. 1841 J. S. Mill Let. 1 Mar. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 466 Poetry κατ' ἐξοχήν or poet's poetry as opposed to everybody's poetry. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xx. 402 If any general theory of the sufficiency of Evidence and the legitimacy of Generalization be possible, this must be Logic κατ' ἐξοχήν. 1879 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 88 Schopenhauer..says that Intuition..‘is knowledge κατ' ἐξοχήν’. 1969 D. Daube Roman Law i. 26 The surety's promise is so striking that he is the promiser kat' exochen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adv.1588 |
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