单词 | nescience |
释义 | nesciencen. 1. Absence or lack of knowledge, ignorance; a form or instance of ignorance. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] unwisdomc825 nutelnessa1200 ignorance?c1225 uncunningc1290 uncunnessa1300 unwittingnessa1300 unknowledging1357 lewdness1362 unsciencec1374 mislearninga1382 simplenessa1382 unknowinga1382 ignorancec1384 unwittingc1384 simplessec1391 rudenessc1400 unweeting14.. lewdhead1401 misknowing?a1425 simplicityc1450 unknowledge1470 discognisancec1475 unknowingness1486 non-knowledge1503 ignorancy1526 simplehead1543 unlearnedness1555 ignoration1563 rusticity1571 ignorantness1574 ignoring1578 inscience1578 ignoramus1583 ingramness1589 lack-learning1590 idiotism1598 ignoramus1598 idiocy1605 nesciencea1625 nescio1637 inerudition1685 unawareness1847 agnosia1879 moronism1922 cluelessness1960 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > instance of ignorancec1450 simplicity1574 nesciencea1625 a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 306 According to these distinctions every nescience is not a sinne. 1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. C2 I can yet adde many more needfull particulars, which the Author hath in his nescience omitted. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie App. sig. Bbbbb The knowledge of them so imperfect as comes neer a nescience. 1715 A. A. Sykes Innocency Error 26 If his salvation is not at stake by reason of his nescience. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1780 II. 332 [Huggins:] I will militate no longer against his nescience. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iv. 82/2 The miserable fraction of Science which united mankind, in a wide Universe of Nescience, has acquired. 1868–70 J. Martineau Essays 282 Not a science beyond reach, but a nescience escaped. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) 160 These touching, and too sincere confessions of universal nescience. 1906 Man 6 180 They have not found either the belief or the nescience. 1937 Public Opinion Q. 1 140 A nescience which..makes most engineers and economists kin. 1978 Forum on Med. Apr. 40/1 Few will risk displaying nescience by questioning the essential meaning of an incomprehensible statement. 2000 Church Times 1 Sept. 11/5 My nescience daunts me. 2. Ignorance of something; an instance of this. Now rare. ΚΠ 1637 T. Jackson Serm. Jer. xxvi. 19 in Wks. (1844) VI. 93 Not out of a nescience of this rule. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 107 A Nescience or Oblivion of Divine Tranquility. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 269 Brutes have an Advantage over human Kind..in their Nescience of Evils to come. 1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) 414 A nescience of that which it would contradict the nature of all intelligence to know. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 6 There was in Adam a nescience of many things. 1906 Man 6 180 All other authorities known to me have been ‘silent’..about south-eastern nescience of procreation. 1938 Man 38 175 The..imperative to construct..cultural ‘patterns’..has led the author to postulate a nescience of all physiological relationships. 1993 J. E. Taylor Christians & Holy Places xi. 223 [Bagatti's belief was] in contrast to the usual view that the text shows such a nescience of Palestinian geography and Jewish customs that it can only have derived from a non-Jew who had never been to the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1625 |
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