单词 | metaphysico- |
释义 | metaphysico-comb. form Forming adjectives with the sense ‘metaphysical and ——’, as metaphysico-ethical, metaphysico-legal, metaphysico-theological, etc. Also (occasionally) forming nouns in sense ‘of a metaphysical kind’, as metaphysico-psychologist. ΚΠ 1757 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 229 Pray ask our friend..whether my metaphysico-ethical philosophy be right. 1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. iv. §16 A certain metaphysico-legal impotence. 1819 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 973 A work of merely general and metaphysico-theological interest. 1848 D. G. Rossetti Let. 20 Aug. (1965) I. 40 Hunt's stanzas..partook of the metaphysico-mysterioso-obscure. 1850 H. L. Mansel Lett., Lect. & Rev. (1873) 12 Another metaphysico-grammatical theory. 1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 659/2 My father was outspoken in defense of his own clearly defined opinions on the metaphysico-theological questions involved. 1904 Q. Rev. July 266 The absence of the metaphysico-religious element in his constitution. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 961 ‘Responsibility’ was not a medical conception: it was a metaphysico-legal conception. 1905 Spectator 28 Jan. (Suppl.) 119/1 One of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’ metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such abundance. 1936 L. S. Stebbing in C. Day Lewis & L. S. Stebbing Imagination & Thinking 15 The truth of this statement is logically independent of any metaphysico-psychologist's -ism. 1955 H. B. Acton Illusion of Epoch 3 The criticisms that apply no more to it than they do to other metaphysico-ethical systems. 1991 Philos. Rev. 100 474 This is a sequel to, or perhaps a popularization of, the author's first book, propagandizing for the earlier work's metaphysico-logico-semantical project. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1757 |
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