mathematicn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmaθ(ə)ˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/ˈˌmæθ(ə)ˈmædɪk/

Inflections: Plural mathematics, (in sense A. 3 also) mathematici.

Forms: Middle English makamete (transmission error), Middle English matamatik, Middle English matematik, Middle English mathematik, Middle English methametik, Middle English–1600s mathematique, 1500s mathematike, 1500s mathematycke, 1500s methamatic, 1500s–1600s mathematicke, 1500s–1700s mathematick, 1500s– mathematic, 1600s mathmatique; Scottish pre-1700 mathematicque, pre-1700 mathematik, pre-1700 mathematique, pre-1700 methamatic, pre-1700 methamatik, pre-1700 methamatyk, pre-1700 1700s– mathematic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mathematique; Latin mathēmaticus, mathēmatica.

Etymology: < Middle French mathematique (adjective) mathematical (French mathématique ), (feminine noun) mathematics (both 13th cent. in Old French; also matematique ), (masculine noun) astrologer (14th cent.), mathematician (15th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin mathēmaticus (adjective) mathematical, astrological, (noun) mathematician, astrologer, also mathēmatica (noun, short for ars mathēmatica ) mathematics < ancient Greek μαθηματικός (adjective) mathematical, (noun) mathematician (the senses ‘astronomical, astronomer’ are Hellenistic Greek), also τὰ μαθηματικά (use as noun of neuter plural of the adjective: for spec. use see note s.v. mathematical adj. and n.), ἡ μαθηματική (noun, short for ἡ μαθηματικὴ ἐπιστήμη ) mathematics < μαθηματ- , μάθημα something learned, knowledge, the mathematical sciences (the sense ‘astrology’ is Hellenistic Greek; < the base of μανθάνειν (aorist μαθεῖν ) to learn + -ηματ- , -ημα , suffix forming nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix.A wide range of possible Indo-European cognates is offered in J. Pokorny Indogermanisches etymol. Wörterbuch (1959) I. 730, but treated with some scepticism by P. Chantraine, Dict. Étym. de la Langue Grecque (1974) at μανθάνω. With use as noun in sense ‘mathematics’, compare Italian matematica (a1294), Spanish matemática (1611), Portuguese matemática (16th cent. as mathematica ), German Mathematik (1518; compare Middle High German mathematica (1460)), Swedish matematik (1698). With use as noun in sense ‘mathematician, astrologer’, compare Italian matematico (c1308), Spanish matemático (15th cent. as mathematico ), Portuguese matemático (16th cent. as mathematico ), German Mathematiker (18th cent.; earlier in form Mathematikus , Mathematicus (1525)), Swedish matematiker (1817; earlier in form matematikus (late 16th cent.)). With use as adjective, compare Italian matematico (c1308), Spanish matemático (15th cent. as mathematico ), Portuguese matematico (16th cent. as mathematico ), German mathematisch (1537), Swedish matematisk (1635). In plural form mathematici in sense A. 3 after the Latin plural form.

A. n.

a. = mathematics n. 1. Now chiefly Philosophy.This sense had become rare by the early 17th cent., but was revived in the later 19th cent. (perhaps after German Mathematik) for use instead of mathematics in contexts in which the unity of the science is emphasized.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun]

mathematica1387

mathesisa1475

mathematics?1545

mathematicals1563

posology1817

math1847

maths1911

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 27 Tholomeus, a connynge man of sciens of methametik made more of astronomy þan was..y-made tofore his tyme.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 146 The thridde point of Theorique, Which cleped is Mathematique, Devided is in sondri wise... The ferste of whiche is Arsmetique, And the secounde is seid Musique, The thridde is ek Geometrie, Also the ferthe Astronomie.

c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 342 Þis witt þat crist spekiþ of stondeþ not..in oþur curiouse lawes, as makamete [v.r. matematik], or lawes of kynde.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 60 I haue heard heere in London of an Italian cunning in Mathematicke, named Psellus.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course ii. f. 25^v Phylosophy, Physicks and the Mathematick, were translated out of the Greeke into Arabian.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) i. viii. f. 54 Ptolome..richt cunnyng baith in the science of mathematic and cosmographie.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh2^v Another part of naturall philosophie..is Mathematicke .

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 65 Mathematick is only a preface to divine things.

1739 S. Johnson in Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 72 A very uncommon Knowledge of the mathematick.

1772 J. Trumbull Progress of Dulness i. 14 By mathematic's aid To count the worlds in light array'd.

1854 L. P. Hickok Empirical Psychol. 125 All pure mathematic is thus a science of pure intuition.

1893 Philos. Rev. 2 138 That pure mathematic and physic exist as sciences, nobody doubts.

1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 695 The philosophy of intelligence..does not run naturally to a geometric and materialist conception of reality—a universal mathematic.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1927 W. C. Williams in Dial Feb. 92 Who are these people (how complex This mathematic) among whom I see myself In the regularly ordered plateglass of His thoughts?

1955 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ In Memoriam James Joyce 141 Essays in a new human mathematic.

1978 A. Lorde Black Unicorn 35 I want to chew up time Until every moment expands In an emotional mathematic That includes the smell and texture Of every similar instant since I was born.

†2. A mathematician; an astrologer. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > knowledge of > one who has

mathematician?a1475

mathematical1545

mathematic1547

algebrician1579

computist1595

algebraist1614

philomathematic1621

Archimedesa1649

algorist1656

analyst1656

fluxionist1734

calculist1829

metamathematician1935

numerical analyst1956

the world > the universe > astrology > [noun] > astrologer

astronomienc1330

astrologianc1400

astrologue1487

calker1535

mathematical1545

mathematiciana1576

mathematist1579

astrologer1581

artist1584

mathematicc1604

astrologomage1635

astrologist1683

1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. i. xxiii. sig. Giij Archelaus..was first an hearer of Antilochus, a Mathematycke.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 87 Hippocrates the mathematike.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 460 Buteon a Mathematick declareth expressely in a booke, what it [sc. the Arke] conteyned foote by foote.

c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 5 I haue seene your conference withe witches..& ye damned frye of cheatinge mathematticke.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 447 The Memphian Priests were deepe Phylosophers..and great Mathematikes.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. ix. 207 Those coniectures of the Mathematiques he layeth flat.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 27/2 Mathematick, one that Calculateth Nativities, an Astrologer, or a Mathematician.

3. A member of a group of disciples of Pythagoras who studied his scientific proofs and demonstrations, rather than following his doctrines and precepts unquestioningly. Opposed to acousmatic n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [noun] > Presocratic philosopher or adherent > of specific schools

Ionic1483

Pythagorean1531

Pythagorist1576

Italic1594

physiologer1598

Democritean1603

atomist1610

Pythagoric1652

physiologist1653

acousmatic1660

mathematic1660

Pythagorite1660

Anaxagorean1678

Anaximandrian1678

atomic1678

Heraclitic1678

Parmenidean1678

Pythagorician1678

hylopathian1809

atomician1850

neopythagorean1891

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 46 The Mathematici were those who learnt the fuller and more exactly-elaborate reason of Science.

1702 Lives Anc. Philosophers 345 Of the approv'd disciples, some were call'd Mathematici..and others Acousmatici who learn'd Doctrines without Demonstrations or Reasons.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Acousmatici The Acousmatici stood opposed to the mathematici, who were those initiated into the secrets of science.

a1867 G. Oliver Pythagorean Triangle (1875) ii. 71 The form of instruction used by this philosopher [sc. Pythagoras] was twofold; and his disciples passed under the denomination of the Acousmatici and the Mathematici.

1922 Classical Q. 16 139 Tradition points to a split between the Acousmatics, who may, perhaps, be regarded as the ‘old believers’ who clung to the religious doctrine, and the Mathematici, an intellectualist or modernist wing.

1989 G. Clark in tr. Iamblichus On Pythagorean Life 34 The main problem was whether the true tradition was preserved by Hearers (‘acousmatics’) or Learners (‘Mathematics’).

†4. In plural. Dice cut perfectly square. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > type of

mathematics1692

poker dice1870

1692 Brit. Patent 292 (1857) 1 A new sort of dice knowne by the name of mathematicks, cutt perfectly square by a mold.

1697 C. Cibber Womans Wit i. 8 The old Rogue..wou'd ha' put the Doctor upon me..(unknown to him) I flung away the Doctor, and clapt into the Box a Pair of True Mathematicks.

B. adj.

= mathematical adj. (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective]

mathematicc1450

mathematical?a1475

posological1817

philomathical1828

the world > the universe > astrology > [adjective]

astrological1538

mathematical?1549

mathematic1593

astrologian1621

astrologic1648

uranical1671

philomathical1709

astrologous1817

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > recognition or import within

mathematic1609

mathematical1641

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > adopted for mathematical use

mathematical1588

mathematic1664

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adjective] > of calculated result

evena1400

justc1400

mathematical1604

exacta1616

mathematic1664

strict1791

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective]

geometricalc1392

geometrialc1550

geometric1609

mathematical1614

mathematica1680

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > skilled in studying or teaching

mathematical1522

mathematica1680

numerate1959

c1450 (?a1402) J. Trevisa tr. De Regimine Principum (Digby 233) f. 1^v (MED) This hyghe derk mater is contrarye to mathematik matir, for in mathematik mater demonstracions is schewyng.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 49 Ptholome auerois aristotel galien ypocrites or Cicero..var expert practicians in methamatic art.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ☞^v For the causes alleged..in respect of my Art Mathematike generall.

1593 G. Peele Honovr of Garter Prol. sig. A2 That admirable Mathematique skill, Familiar with the starres and Zodiack (To whom the heauen lyes open as her booke).

1609 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 163 A Mathematique point, which is the most indivisible and unique thing which art can present.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ss2^v They were wise Astrologers, who by the Mathematicke art (as Cyprian speaketh) knew the force & course of the Planets.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ix. §4. 297 Like the Punctum is in Mathematicke body.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 270 That the Seven-headed Beast cannot be the Turkish Empire, we may conclude with Mathematick certitude.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 214 The mathematic Lines, Where Nature all the Wit of Man confines.

1792 T. Taylor in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. (new ed.) I. Introd. 94 There are five orders of numbers, the divine, the essential, the animative, the natural, and the mathematic.

1807 Ld. Byron Thoughts College Exam. i Denouncing dire reproach to luckless fools, Unskill'd to plod in mathematic rules.

1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis II. 266 From his earliest years, he had brought, with mathematic precision, his voice, his manners, even the lines of his face, into a harmony undisturbed by expression.

a1897 T. E. Brown Coll. Poems (1900) 58 O cruel force, That gives me not a chance To fill my natural course; With mathematic rod Economising God.

1938 Nat. Suppl. 12 Mar. 460/2 The inspiration of these methods does penetrate the mathematic chill.

1969 Jrnl. Finance 24 951 Defining M₁ and M₂ as I have done makes the geometric and mathematic presentations equivalent.

1992 Sci. Amer. Sept. 153/2 The mathematic term ‘ill posed’ means that additional constraints are needed to solve the problem.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1670 J. Wallis Let. 11 Jan. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 519 Mathematic books..to be had very cheap.

1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 320 There be mathematick lectures.

1705 London Gaz. No. 4116. 1 Isaac Newton Esq.; formerly Mathematick Professor.

1981 A. Gray Lanark xx. 209 Do you promise to attend your mathematic lessons, not only in body but in spirit?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mathematic
释义	mathematicn.adj. Brit. /ˌmaθ(ə)ˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmæθ(ə)ˈmædɪk/ Inflections: Plural mathematics, (in sense A. 3 also) mathematici. Forms: Middle English makamete (transmission error), Middle English matamatik, Middle English matematik, Middle English mathematik, Middle English methametik, Middle English–1600s mathematique, 1500s mathematike, 1500s mathematycke, 1500s methamatic, 1500s–1600s mathematicke, 1500s–1700s mathematick, 1500s– mathematic, 1600s mathmatique; Scottish pre-1700 mathematicque, pre-1700 mathematik, pre-1700 mathematique, pre-1700 methamatic, pre-1700 methamatik, pre-1700 methamatyk, pre-1700 1700s– mathematic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mathematique; Latin mathēmaticus, mathēmatica. Etymology: < Middle French mathematique (adjective) mathematical (French mathématique ), (feminine noun) mathematics (both 13th cent. in Old French; also matematique ), (masculine noun) astrologer (14th cent.), mathematician (15th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin mathēmaticus (adjective) mathematical, astrological, (noun) mathematician, astrologer, also mathēmatica (noun, short for ars mathēmatica ) mathematics < ancient Greek μαθηματικός (adjective) mathematical, (noun) mathematician (the senses ‘astronomical, astronomer’ are Hellenistic Greek), also τὰ μαθηματικά (use as noun of neuter plural of the adjective: for spec. use see note s.v. mathematical adj. and n.), ἡ μαθηματική (noun, short for ἡ μαθηματικὴ ἐπιστήμη ) mathematics < μαθηματ- , μάθημα something learned, knowledge, the mathematical sciences (the sense ‘astrology’ is Hellenistic Greek; < the base of μανθάνειν (aorist μαθεῖν ) to learn + -ηματ- , -ημα , suffix forming nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix.A wide range of possible Indo-European cognates is offered in J. Pokorny Indogermanisches etymol. Wörterbuch (1959) I. 730, but treated with some scepticism by P. Chantraine, Dict. Étym. de la Langue Grecque (1974) at μανθάνω. With use as noun in sense ‘mathematics’, compare Italian matematica (a1294), Spanish matemática (1611), Portuguese matemática (16th cent. as mathematica ), German Mathematik (1518; compare Middle High German mathematica (1460)), Swedish matematik (1698). With use as noun in sense ‘mathematician, astrologer’, compare Italian matematico (c1308), Spanish matemático (15th cent. as mathematico ), Portuguese matemático (16th cent. as mathematico ), German Mathematiker (18th cent.; earlier in form Mathematikus , Mathematicus (1525)), Swedish matematiker (1817; earlier in form matematikus (late 16th cent.)). With use as adjective, compare Italian matematico (c1308), Spanish matemático (15th cent. as mathematico ), Portuguese matematico (16th cent. as mathematico ), German mathematisch (1537), Swedish matematisk (1635). In plural form mathematici in sense A. 3 after the Latin plural form. A. n. 1. a. = mathematics n. 1. Now chiefly Philosophy.This sense had become rare by the early 17th cent., but was revived in the later 19th cent. (perhaps after German Mathematik) for use instead of mathematics in contexts in which the unity of the science is emphasized. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] mathematica1387 mathesisa1475 mathematics?1545 mathematicals1563 posology1817 math1847 maths1911 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 27 Tholomeus, a connynge man of sciens of methametik made more of astronomy þan was..y-made tofore his tyme. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 146 The thridde point of Theorique, Which cleped is Mathematique, Devided is in sondri wise... The ferste of whiche is Arsmetique, And the secounde is seid Musique, The thridde is ek Geometrie, Also the ferthe Astronomie. c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 342 Þis witt þat crist spekiþ of stondeþ not..in oþur curiouse lawes, as makamete [v.r. matematik], or lawes of kynde. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 60 I haue heard heere in London of an Italian cunning in Mathematicke, named Psellus. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course ii. f. 25^v Phylosophy, Physicks and the Mathematick, were translated out of the Greeke into Arabian. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) i. viii. f. 54 Ptolome..richt cunnyng baith in the science of mathematic and cosmographie. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh2^v Another part of naturall philosophie..is Mathematicke . View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 65 Mathematick is only a preface to divine things. 1739 S. Johnson in Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 72 A very uncommon Knowledge of the mathematick. 1772 J. Trumbull Progress of Dulness i. 14 By mathematic's aid To count the worlds in light array'd. 1854 L. P. Hickok Empirical Psychol. 125 All pure mathematic is thus a science of pure intuition. 1893 Philos. Rev. 2 138 That pure mathematic and physic exist as sciences, nobody doubts. 1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 695 The philosophy of intelligence..does not run naturally to a geometric and materialist conception of reality—a universal mathematic. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1927 W. C. Williams in Dial Feb. 92 Who are these people (how complex This mathematic) among whom I see myself In the regularly ordered plateglass of His thoughts? 1955 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ In Memoriam James Joyce 141 Essays in a new human mathematic. 1978 A. Lorde Black Unicorn 35 I want to chew up time Until every moment expands In an emotional mathematic That includes the smell and texture Of every similar instant since I was born. †2. A mathematician; an astrologer. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > knowledge of > one who has mathematician?a1475 mathematical1545 mathematic1547 algebrician1579 computist1595 algebraist1614 philomathematic1621 Archimedesa1649 algorist1656 analyst1656 fluxionist1734 calculist1829 metamathematician1935 numerical analyst1956 the world > the universe > astrology > [noun] > astrologer astronomienc1330 astrologianc1400 astrologue1487 calker1535 mathematical1545 mathematiciana1576 mathematist1579 astrologer1581 artist1584 mathematicc1604 astrologomage1635 astrologist1683 1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. i. xxiii. sig. Giij Archelaus..was first an hearer of Antilochus, a Mathematycke. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 87 Hippocrates the mathematike. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 460 Buteon a Mathematick declareth expressely in a booke, what it [sc. the Arke] conteyned foote by foote. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 5 I haue seene your conference withe witches..& ye damned frye of cheatinge mathematticke. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 447 The Memphian Priests were deepe Phylosophers..and great Mathematikes. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. ix. 207 Those coniectures of the Mathematiques he layeth flat. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 27/2 Mathematick, one that Calculateth Nativities, an Astrologer, or a Mathematician. 3. A member of a group of disciples of Pythagoras who studied his scientific proofs and demonstrations, rather than following his doctrines and precepts unquestioningly. Opposed to acousmatic n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [noun] > Presocratic philosopher or adherent > of specific schools Ionic1483 Pythagorean1531 Pythagorist1576 Italic1594 physiologer1598 Democritean1603 atomist1610 Pythagoric1652 physiologist1653 acousmatic1660 mathematic1660 Pythagorite1660 Anaxagorean1678 Anaximandrian1678 atomic1678 Heraclitic1678 Parmenidean1678 Pythagorician1678 hylopathian1809 atomician1850 neopythagorean1891 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 46 The Mathematici were those who learnt the fuller and more exactly-elaborate reason of Science. 1702 Lives Anc. Philosophers 345 Of the approv'd disciples, some were call'd Mathematici..and others Acousmatici who learn'd Doctrines without Demonstrations or Reasons. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Acousmatici The Acousmatici stood opposed to the mathematici, who were those initiated into the secrets of science. a1867 G. Oliver Pythagorean Triangle (1875) ii. 71 The form of instruction used by this philosopher [sc. Pythagoras] was twofold; and his disciples passed under the denomination of the Acousmatici and the Mathematici. 1922 Classical Q. 16 139 Tradition points to a split between the Acousmatics, who may, perhaps, be regarded as the ‘old believers’ who clung to the religious doctrine, and the Mathematici, an intellectualist or modernist wing. 1989 G. Clark in tr. Iamblichus On Pythagorean Life 34 The main problem was whether the true tradition was preserved by Hearers (‘acousmatics’) or Learners (‘Mathematics’). †4. In plural. Dice cut perfectly square. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > type of mathematics1692 poker dice1870 1692 Brit. Patent 292 (1857) 1 A new sort of dice knowne by the name of mathematicks, cutt perfectly square by a mold. 1697 C. Cibber Womans Wit i. 8 The old Rogue..wou'd ha' put the Doctor upon me..(unknown to him) I flung away the Doctor, and clapt into the Box a Pair of True Mathematicks. B. adj. = mathematical adj. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] mathematicc1450 mathematical?a1475 posological1817 philomathical1828 the world > the universe > astrology > [adjective] astrological1538 mathematical?1549 mathematic1593 astrologian1621 astrologic1648 uranical1671 philomathical1709 astrologous1817 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > recognition or import within mathematic1609 mathematical1641 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > adopted for mathematical use mathematical1588 mathematic1664 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adjective] > of calculated result evena1400 justc1400 mathematical1604 exacta1616 mathematic1664 strict1791 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective] geometricalc1392 geometrialc1550 geometric1609 mathematical1614 mathematica1680 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > skilled in studying or teaching mathematical1522 mathematica1680 numerate1959 c1450 (?a1402) J. Trevisa tr. De Regimine Principum (Digby 233) f. 1^v (MED) This hyghe derk mater is contrarye to mathematik matir, for in mathematik mater demonstracions is schewyng. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 49 Ptholome auerois aristotel galien ypocrites or Cicero..var expert practicians in methamatic art. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ☞^v For the causes alleged..in respect of my Art Mathematike generall. 1593 G. Peele Honovr of Garter Prol. sig. A2 That admirable Mathematique skill, Familiar with the starres and Zodiack (To whom the heauen lyes open as her booke). 1609 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 163 A Mathematique point, which is the most indivisible and unique thing which art can present. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ss2^v They were wise Astrologers, who by the Mathematicke art (as Cyprian speaketh) knew the force & course of the Planets. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ix. §4. 297 Like the Punctum is in Mathematicke body. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 270 That the Seven-headed Beast cannot be the Turkish Empire, we may conclude with Mathematick certitude. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 214 The mathematic Lines, Where Nature all the Wit of Man confines. 1792 T. Taylor in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. (new ed.) I. Introd. 94 There are five orders of numbers, the divine, the essential, the animative, the natural, and the mathematic. 1807 Ld. Byron Thoughts College Exam. i Denouncing dire reproach to luckless fools, Unskill'd to plod in mathematic rules. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis II. 266 From his earliest years, he had brought, with mathematic precision, his voice, his manners, even the lines of his face, into a harmony undisturbed by expression. a1897 T. E. Brown Coll. Poems (1900) 58 O cruel force, That gives me not a chance To fill my natural course; With mathematic rod Economising God. 1938 Nat. Suppl. 12 Mar. 460/2 The inspiration of these methods does penetrate the mathematic chill. 1969 Jrnl. Finance 24 951 Defining M₁ and M₂ as I have done makes the geometric and mathematic presentations equivalent. 1992 Sci. Amer. Sept. 153/2 The mathematic term ‘ill posed’ means that additional constraints are needed to solve the problem. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1670 J. Wallis Let. 11 Jan. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 519 Mathematic books..to be had very cheap. 1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 320 There be mathematick lectures. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4116. 1 Isaac Newton Esq.; formerly Mathematick Professor. 1981 A. Gray Lanark xx. 209 Do you promise to attend your mathematic lessons, not only in body but in spirit? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † mathematicv. Forms: see mathematic adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mathematic adj. Etymology: < mathematic adj. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To bring out with mathematical accuracy. ΚΠ 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 240 Words come not then digested and mathematiqu'd out by judgement, sense, and reason, but flash'd and tumulated by chanc'e [sic]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.a1387v.1661
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