| 单词 | locomotive faculty |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocomotive faculty locomotive faculty n. (also †faculty locomotive) [compare post-classical Latin locomotiva facultas (1588 or earlier), French faculté locomotive (1583 in Middle French)] now historical an inherent ability to move from one position or place to another, as by an act of will. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun] > faculty or opportunity of coursec1400 locomotive faculty1612 locomotive power1640 locomotive1649 locomotivity1752 mobility1777 locomobility1785 travel1816 locomotility1828 motiveness1828 1612Locomotiue facultie [see sense A. 1a]. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. vii. 196 Complaints of gravity in animated and living bodies, where the nerves subside, and the faculty locomotive seems abolished. View more context for this quotation 1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 197 Except this exercise of the loco-motive faculty, nothing is there to distinguish him from the common stock of still-life. 2000 S. C. Inati Probl. Evil iv. 106 The function of the locomotive faculty is to move and to act [according to Ibn Sînâ]. < as lemmas |
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