单词 | autopticity |
释义 | autopticityn. Now rare. Autoptic quality, character, or nature. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > witnessing > quality or nature autopticity1853 1853 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. Oct. 186 The autopticity of the narration brings us still nearer Peter. 1861 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. 14 169 If we attend to his style, it will be observed that its autopticity coincides with the use of the first person plural. 1890 Westm. Rev. 134 175 When we come to look through the long enumerations of details which are given as proofs of the writer's ‘autopticity’, we are struck by another defect in the argument. 1937 Speculum 12 197 It [sc. the minuteness of detail] is..evidence of falsehood or autopticity: and, as of the former there is no additional proof, we are justified..in receiving the accounts as true. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1853 |
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