单词 | leaving-out |
释义 | > as lemmasleaving-out leaving-out n. somewhat rare (a) the action or an instance of leaving something out; (b) something left out, omitted matter.Numerous uses are ambiguous. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission > that which is leaving-out1584 balk1596 omission1621 left-out1878 1584 D. Fenner Artes of Logike & Rethorike ii. i. sig. C The ordering of reasons..sometimes is altered by additions, leauinges out, or displacing of anie thing. 1643 R. Hodges Special Help Orthogr. 22 In such words.., custom hath already given way, for the leaving out of e in the end. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 245 He may perhaps Get a small Word..into the foregoing Line; and..another..in the following Line, which if his Leaving out is not much, may Get it in. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 508/1 The mind, by leaving out of the particular colours perceived by sense that which distinguishes them one from another,..makes an idea of colour in abstract. 1913 Smart Set July 156/2 Matthew leaves out the shepherds and the manger, Luke leaves out the wise men... But these leavings out are not nearly so irritating as Mr. Page's impertinent puttings in. 1923 F. M. Ford in Spectator Lit. Suppl. 17 Nov. 744/2 It then becomes a matter of selection... His leavings-out are as matchless as are his inclusions. 1932 Kerrville (Texas) Mountain Sun 6 Oct. 4/3 You hold your copy off at arm's length and squint at it to see if there is any more devilish slyness you can safely achieve by leavings out or puttings in. 2002 S. Lundquist in C. Rankine & J. Spahr Amer. Women Poets in 21st Cent. 193 One poem is luxuriously dense, the next minimal and irradiated by white spaces, profuse ‘leavings out’. leaving-out C1. With adverbs, in compound nouns of action corresponding to adverbial combinations of leave, as leaving-off, leaving-out, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] lissc1000 ceasec1330 stintc1330 stinting1338 ceasinga1340 discontinuancea1398 cessationa1400 leaving-off?a1425 surceasingc1435 disusage1475 stop1483 staying1546 discontinuation1572 discontinuing1582 surcease1590 stintance1605 cessure1607 desisting1607 avocationa1617 desistance1632 sistencea1639 surceasementa1641 supersession1648 dispractice1673 breaking-off1683 estoppage1701 cess1703 cesser1809 shutdown1857 stoppage1865 shut-off1889 sign-off1919 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 107v (MED) Gluttrie, dronkenez..leuyng of [?c1425 Paris levynge; L. omissio] of excercise..makeþ numerable podagrez. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 198 (MED) Þou biddist alle good dedis..and her contrarie yuelis and her leevingis of, þou forbedist. 1657 W. Prynne Exact Abridgem. Rec. Tower of London 585 The King..appointeth..that within one moneth after the death, or leaving over of any such Alderman, there be appointed to them one other Alderman to supply the same. 1662 R. Boyle Def. Doctr. Spring & Weight of Air ii. ii. 31 It seems precariously affirm'd, that there is such a successive leaving behind of one Surface after another as is here imagin'd. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Jan. (1948) I. 164 Upon Steele's leaving off, there were two or three scrub Tatlers came out. 1851 J. R. Ballantyne Tarka-sangraha of Annam Bhaṭṭa 74 Desire and Aversion are indicated by those same [commencings and leavings off]. 1862 Jrnl. Bath & West of Eng. Soc. for Agric. 10 342 The leaving over of the land in rough furrow throughout the winter. 1905 Official Gaz. E. Afr. & Uganda Protectorates 1 Oct. 303 In the event of a porter falling sick and being unable to travel, he shall be carried to the nearest station, even though doing so should necessitate the leaving behind of loads. 2000 W. M. Johnston Encycl. Monasticism I. 647/2 This change of clothing symbolized leaving off of the ways of the world and adopting a new lifestyle. < as lemmas |
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