单词 | nomic |
释义 | † nomicadj.1 Obsolete. rare. Of the nature of or relating to an ancient Greek musical nome. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [adjective] defunctive1601 epicedial?c1615 pastoritial1654 serenading1673 nomic1728 rhapsodic1844 polycephalic1850 nocturnal1896 palindromic1961 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Mode The Antients had likewise their Modi melopoeiæ, of which Aristides names these, Dithyrambic, Nomic, and Tragic. 1789 T. Twining in tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry Notes 137 He, particularly, mentions the Persians and the Cyclops as imitated in the Dithyrambic and Nomic Poetry of Timotheus and Philoxenus. 1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece III. 33 A wider compass and nobler character had been imparted to the nomic order of composition, through the medium of the flute or clarionet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2019). nomicadj.2n. A. adj.2 1. Linguistics. Of spelling: customary, usual. Now rare. ΚΠ 1871 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. III. iii. p. xiii Words in customary or NOMIC spelling occurring among GLOSSIC..should be underlined with a wavy line. 1880–1 A. J. Ellis in Trans. Philol. Soc. 303 Nomic spelling must always be a matter of memory. 1900 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. (ed. 2) I. 226 As the ordinary or nomic spelling does not always show the real pronunciation, it is necessary to use a phonetic spelling. 1922 Encycl. & Dict. Educ. IV. 1577/2 Pupils tend to confuse the phonetic with the nomic script. 2. Philosophy. Relating to or concerned with a discoverable scientific or logical law; not contingent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > other theories or elements descendental1847 scientistic1879 nomic1892 hypothetico-deductive1912 essentialist1938 inductivist1945 testable1945 observationalist1951 metascientific1965 society > communication > writing > spelling > [adjective] > belonging to orthography or correct spelling orthographical1577 orthographic1806 nomic1892 1892 K. Pearson Gram. of Sci. iii. 114 I shall, for convenience, however, speak of natural law in the old sense, or, as a mere routine of perceptions, as law in the nomic sense. Law in the nomic sense is thus no product of the reason, but a pure order of perceptions. 1905 Nature 30 Mar. 517/2 The correlation..is..of nomic heteroscedasticity. 1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. iv. 51 The distinction between accidental and nomic universality can be brought out in another way. 1992 Mind 101 133 Armstrong..argues that the law N(F,G), which is the holding of the nomic necessitation relation between the first-order universals F and G, is both a second-order particular and a first-order universal. B. n. Linguistics. The customary mode or system of spelling. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > correct, customary spelling orthographya1460 nomic1877 1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 208 . 1880–1 A. J. Ellis in Trans. Philol. Soc. 303 Forming an introduction to nomic, and not at all..superseding the use of nomic. 1902 XX Cent. Cyclopædia IV. 210/2 Glossic, a phonetic system of spelling invented by Mr. A. J. Ellis, intended to be used concurrently with the existing English orthography (Nomic) in order to remedy some of its defects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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