单词 | metaptosis |
释义 | † metaptosisn. Obsolete. 1. Medicine. Change in the nature of a disease; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 196 Metaptosis is the degenerating of one Disease into another, as of a Quartane Ague into a Tertian; and on the contrary, of an Apoplexy into a Palsy. 1773 D. Garrick Let. 11 June in Private Corr. (1831) I. 544 Without endangering you of a metaptosis, or transition into other dreadful disorders. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Metaptosis, old term for a change, or passing of one disease into another. 2. Logic. A change in the truth value of a proposition (from false to true, or from true to false). rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 in Cent. Dict. Metaptosis...In logic, the change of a proposition from being false to being true. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1684 |
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