单词 | augmenter |
释义 | augmentern. 1. A person who or thing which makes something greater in number, size, or degree; an increaser, an enlarger. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > one who or that which increases enhancera1425 morerc1450 augmentor1485 increaser1528 augmenter1539 amplifier1546 adder1547 magnifier1550 improver1607 booster1917 builder-upper1936 1539 Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Octaui xiii. f. xxiiiii Reseruynge to all and syngular persons and bodyes politike and to theyr heyres & successours, other than..all donours, graunters, or augmenters of them. 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell iii. sig. Aa2 They were ye first inuentours of astrologie and iudgement of stars, and finders out of phisicke, augmenters of musicke, and many other liberall sciences. 1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries xviii. 75 Authors, Restorers, Endowers, and augmenters of the Missall Sacrifice. 1680 G. Ripley in Aurifontina Chymica 77 Water, or Matter, or Seed whereof Man is begot, is not the augmenter of the Body. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer: 2nd Pt. 5 It will certainly be found to be the best augmenter of Barly-Crops. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 38 He..enjoys the title of perpetual augmenter of the Empire. 1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian Introd. ⁋16 His wife is..the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. 1871 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 19 May 536/2 The worker is..an augmenter, instead of being a reducer; he augments the capital—the fund that supplies wages. 1920 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 24 349 The new Kaiser was to be the augmenter of the kingdom. 1953 Flying Feb. 16/1 (heading) The lowdown on that thrust augmenter known as the afterburner. 2011 New Yorker 4 July 71/2 Beckett started out as an augmenter, and ended his life as a subtracter. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > magnifying glass magnifying glass1646 magnifier1665 hand glass1676 augmenter1703 spying-glass1767 eyeglass1768 power1854 spyglass1883 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1359 The bristles..were when viewed with a large Augmenter all spicated. 3. Psychology. An individual who tends to experience stimuli as being of a higher intensity than is typical. Cf. reducer n. 1b.The terms augmenter and reducer were first used in this context by psychologist Asenath Petrie to categorize the responses of subjects in an experiment relating to the sense of touch. The concept was then applied to a broader range of both physical and emotional stimuli. ΚΠ 1960 A. Petrie in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 86 15 Let us call persons who tend to reduce the size of the block subjectively after stimulation the Reducers, as distinguished from the Augmenters, who tend to enlarge the block. 1960 A. Petrie in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 86 19 There is, in the case of Reducers and Augmenters, the likelihood that they are seeing, hearing, touching, and feeling all things at different intensities. 1987 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 38 571 Augmenters suffer because they are psychologically and physically overly sensitive to stimuli. 2000 G. E. Barnes Addiction-prone Personality ii. v. 127 In the clinical research on addiction, alcoholics have generally been stimulus augmenters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1539 |
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