notionaladj.

Brit.

/ˈnəʊʃn̩(ə)l/,

/ˈnəʊʃən(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈnoʊʃən(ə)l/,

/ˈnoʊʃn(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English nocional, 1500s–1600s notionall, 1600s– notional.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin notionalis.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin notionalis of or relating to a concept or idea (from 13th cent. in British sources), spec. relating to a Trinitarian notion (c1230–50 in Bartholomaeus Anglicus: compare quot. a1398 at sense 1), of or concerned with knowledge, speculative (from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin nōtiōn- , nōtiō notion n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French notional (1485), Middle French, French notionnel (1578 in an isolated attestation; otherwise 1701), Italian nozionale (1585), Portuguese nocional (1679), Spanish nocional (1734 or earlier).

I. Of or relating to a notion or idea.

†1. Theology. Designating or relating to a Trinitarian notion (see notion n. 1a). Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 10 Of novnes nocionales, somme beþ abstractine [read abstractiue] as..processibilitas, spirabilitas..and beþ concretiua & adiectiua..as generans..of nounes nocional somme is Iseid of o persone allone, as generans is I-seide of þe fadir and genitus & nascens of þe sone.

†2. Of knowledge, philosophy, etc.: purely speculative; not based on fact or demonstration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > [adjective] > of knowledge

speculativec1380

notional1597

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 259 Whatsoeuer we may..write in our books through a notionall conceipt of things needfull.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §836 They are to be set aside, being but Notional, and ill Limited; and Definite Axiomes are to be drawn out of Measured Instances.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. Proem. 3 Philosophie considered in its Particular Ideas, is either Notional or Real.

1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chymicall Princ. Pref. 9 in Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) I have a very differing esteem of the Notionall and of the Practicall part of Chymistry.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. Pref. p. xx People may be very well experienced in these Ideal or Notional Sciences, and yet be Masters of very little, or no Knowledge at all, in Things that actually exist.

1771 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 213 It is not a barely notional or speculative faith.

1831 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 115 A popular exposition of the matter applied mainly to moral, political, and other notional sciences.

1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma viii. 268 A notional work as distinguished from an experimental work.

a. Of a thing, a relation, etc.: not substantially or actually existent; existing only in thought; imaginary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

imaginary?1510

imaginative1517

rational1530

fantastical1531

fantasied1561

airy1565

fancied1568

legendary1570

dreamed1597

fabled1606

ideal1611

fictive1612

affectual1614

insubstantiala1616

imaginatorya1618

supposititious1620

fictitious1621

utopian1624

utopic1624

notional1629

affective1633

fictiousa1644

notionary1646

figmental1655

suppositious1655

fict1677

visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

fancy1801

nice-spun1801

subjective1815

aerial1829

transcendental1835

cardboardy1863

mythical1870

cardboard1879

fictionary1882

figmentary1887

alternative1939

alternate1944

fantasized1964

ideate1966

fanciful-

fantastic-

1629 J. Gaule Distractions 138 Meere notionall is their [gems] value; which is in the Opinion, not in the Thing.

1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) App. vii. 163 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Distance is no Physical affection of any thing, but onley Notional.

1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §34 All things that exist, exist only in the mind, that is, they are purely notional.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xiii. 73 As it is founded generally upon mere notional excellencies.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xii. 247 No wonder, that..he..bewilders himself in the pursuit of notional phantoms.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 225 Her majesty seems to have remunerated empty phrases by providing notional places.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. 157 The oddest of all railways is Nelson's notional railway in New Zealand which does not exist, except as a subsidy paid to road transport.

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army Gloss. 377 Loamshires,..a notional infantry regiment. Blankshires are used as an alternative.

b. Inferred, supposed, or assumed to exist; conjectural; theoretical, not based on actual experience. Now also in weakened sense: nominal, token.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adjective] > equivalent to the period stated

notional1949

1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life 94 It is a mind dealing with notions or notional truths.

1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. iv. 72 In Notional Assent as well as in inferring, the mind contemplates its own creations instead of things.

1949 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Mar. (Suppl.) 150/1 The object is to express this aggregate number of hours per week as a number of notional ‘half-days’ per week.

1956 J. Barth Floating Opera x. 104 It is one thing..to give what Cardinal Newman calls ‘notional’ assent to a proposition such as ‘There is no Justice’, quite another and more difficult matter to give it ‘real’ assent, to learn it stingingly, to the heart through involvement.

1972 Where Sept. 237/3 The standard half-hour homework, or ‘prep’ as it is called in some schools, is purely notional.

1992 Independent 7 Apr. 20/1 ‘Before Babel’..was a fascinating programme..which pushed you gently towards the conclusion that all our words derive from a single vocabulary, a notional language called Nostratic.

2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 4 Aug. For the past two years [he] has been living out of a suitcase with Los Angeles his notional base.

c. spec. Of a sum of money, profit, etc.: imputed; hypothetical; conceived as existing for the purposes of a particular interpretation or theory.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > figures or comparison of figures

year over year1931

notional1958

year on year1958

1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 204/3 The profit attributable to Iraq is the notional one which the oil companies regard as economic.

1964 Financial Times 3 Mar. 15/6 The formula for calculating this standard price has been drawn up so that it would leave the Corporation with a notional profit of £1·8 m. before tax.

1989 J. Greenwood & D. Wilson Public Admin. in Brit. Today (BNC) 160 Calculating a notional rental value is fraught with difficulties.

2000 Thames Water Ann. Rep. & Accts. 39 The notional value of the shares is the difference between the exercise price and the market price.

a. Of the nature of or relating to a concept or idea; conceptual.

ΚΠ

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 8 We grant..that sin is not a mere nothing, but has some kind of logic positivitie or notional entitie.

1986 Amer. Scholar 65 505 Gender is not sex; one is natural, the other notional.

1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 278 They do not specify the boundaries of the state (a notional impossibility), but the boundaries of the interval during which the assertion of the state is validated.

b. Linguistics. Of or relating to semantic content as opposed to the grammatical forms and categories by which that content is expressed. Also (of a word): carrying full meaning, not having a merely grammatical function; (of a verb) principal, main, not auxiliary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [adjective]

ideal1611

conceptive1650

conceptional1738

conceptual1825

notional1839

idealist1856

ideate1966

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [adjective] > relating to content words

integral1668

notional1839

presentive1871

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [adjective] > other types of

notional1839

noematica1866

plerematic1939

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > other specific types of verb

commonc1450

personal?1482

perfect1530

valuative1566

suppletive1633

auxiliary1751

active-passive1859

mutative1866

preterito-presential1875

preterite-present1888

passival1892

preteritive present1894

applicative1903

injunctive1910

activo-passive1927

ornative1934

eventive1946

notional1957

non-factive1969

contrafactive1979

1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 306/2 Language as originally existing..insisted altogether of notional words, some of which were also used in a subordinate sense as relational words.

1847 J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. (1857) 5 The new method [of instruction of the study of language]..develops the distinction..between notional words, which express conceptions, and form-words, which express only relations of our conceptions.

1861 National Rev. Oct. 379 The various modifications of time, person, number, gender,..are expressed by modifications of the notional words themselves, not by distinct words.

1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 20 In ‘he happened to fall’ the notional subject is a nexus ‘he..to fall’.

1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) i. v. 64 The opposite of ‘auxiliary’ is ‘notional verb’, ‘principal verb’, or ‘verb of full meaning’.

1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Notional word, a word that carries a full meaning (‘he has luck’ vs. ‘he has gone’).

1992 D. Crystal Encycl. Dict. Lang. & Langs. 142 Notional grammar would analyse nouns, for example, as ‘names of persons, places, and things’, whereas formal grammar would describe nouns in terms of their location in sentences.

†5. Of a form of insanity: characterized by the attribution of imaginary properties to things, persons, etc. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1782 T. Arnold Observ. Nature Insanity I. 73 Notional Insanity is that state of mind in which a person..perceives external objects as they really exist..yet conceives such notions of the powers, properties [etc.], of things and persons,..as appear obviously..erroneous, or unreasonable.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 5 In notional and ideal Madness, particularly the first, many symptoms are only cunningly suppressed.

II. Of or relating to a person or their behaviour.

†6. Given to abstract or fanciful speculation; holding merely speculative views. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective]

dreaminga1500

fantasied1590

chimerizing1604

vaporous1605

imaginative1626

whimsy1637

airy1643

whimmed1654

chimerical1660

figmentitious1660

notional1664

visionary1712

viewy1848

Barriesque1894

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 193 The old Dogmatists and Notional Speculators.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 170 The impertinence of those Notionall men, that enquire no further, but declare, That [etc.].

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 125. ⁋3 I would not be thought altogether notional in what I have to say, and pass only for a Projector in Morality.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxxiii. 340 Airy notional Men, Enthusiasts [etc.].

1772 J. Wesley Jrnl. 12 Aug. I preached at Salop, and spake strong words, to the amazement of many notional believers.

7. Scottish and (now rare) U.S. (chiefly northern). Fanciful; full of fancies, whims, or caprices. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

startfulmood?a1300

wildc1350

volage?a1366

gerfulc1374

geryc1386

wild-headeda1400

skittishc1412

gerish1430

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

runningc1449

volageous1487

glaikit1488

fantasious1490

giggish1523

tickle or light of the sear?1530

fantastical1531

wayward1531

wantona1538

peevish1539

light-headed1549

humoral1573

unstaid1579

shittle-headed1580

toy-headed1581

fangled1587

humorous1589

choiceful1591

toyish1598

tricksy1598

skip-brain1603

capricious1605

humoursome1607

planetary1607

vertiginous1609

whimsieda1625

ingiddied1628

whimsy1637

toysome1638

cocklec1640

mercurial1647

garish1650

maggoty1650

kicksey-winseya1652

freakish1653

humourish1653

planetic1653

whimsical1653

shittle-braineda1655

freaking1663

maggoty-headed1667

maggot-pated1681

hoity-toity1690

maggotish1693

maggot-headeda1695

whimsy-headed1699

fantasque1701

crotchetly1702

quixotic1718

volatile1719

holloweda1734

conundrumical1743

flighty1768

fly-away1775

dizzy1780

whimmy1785

shy1787

whimming1787

quirky1789

notional1791

tricksome1815

vagarish1819

freakful1820

faddy1824

moodish1827

mawky1837

erratic1841

rockety1843

quirkish1848

maggoty-pated1850

crotchetya1854

freaksome1854

faddish1855

vagrom1882

fantasied1883

vagarisome1883

on-and-offish1888

tricksical1889

freaky1891

hobby-horsical1893

quirksome1896

temperamental1907

up and down1960

untogether1969

fanciful-

fantastic-

1791 Gaz. U.S. (N.Y.) 9 Feb. If a man is a little odd in his ways, his friends say he is a notional creature, or full of notions... Love is the most notional passion.

1830 O. W. Holmes Life & Lett. i. 64 What the ladies call ‘blue’, and the doctors ‘hypochondriacal’, and the old women ‘notional’.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Notional, fanciful, whimsical. Applied to persons; as, ‘He's a very notional man’.

1894 Outing 24 96/2 He did think he would have to get the room cleaned and whitewashed, as his wife was rather notional.

1926 L. Moon Drumorty 101 They were ‘very notional’, and would bring a suit back again and again for alterations.

1965 I. Reekie Melita Trail x. 133 Though often stubborn and notional, with training oxen learned to obey basic commands.

1996 S. Mootoo Cereus blooms at Night iii. 199 Finding a position would be quite impossible... It would be quickly discerned by any employer that I am incurably notional.

8. U.S. regional. Of the opinion that.

ΚΠ

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. ix. 125 I'm glad if the Judge is pleased; but I'm notional that you'll find the sa'ce overdone.

1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Notional,..of the opinion (that); as, he's notional that he'll win.

1955 S. H. Adams Grandfather Stories 178 I'm notional that there is something queer afoot.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	notional
释义	† notionaln. Forms: 1500s nocional, 1500s nocionall, 1600s notional, 1600s notionall. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin notionale. Etymology: < post-classical Latin notionale abstract quality (13th cent.; used by Bacon (a1645) in sense 2), use as noun of neuter singular of notionalis notional adj. Obsolete. 1. Scholastic Theology. A divine attribute. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > attributes of god(s) > an attribute notional?1531 ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. d5 If he make one nocionall in god greater then a nother (by this worde nocionall whiche y^e scholemen vse, I wold you shuld vnderstonde: y^e goodnes, wysedom, power, iustice & mercye of god &c.) then shall he..imagyne y^t one nocionall subdueth a nother. 2. Chiefly depreciative. A supposition or idea. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > unfounded fancy1471 idea1593 conception1614 figment1624 hypothesis1625 notional1653 unding1932 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > something unreal reverie1602 module1608 scindapsea1641 phantasm1642 Scotch mist1647 notional1653 1653 R. Gentilis tr. F. Bacon Nat. & Exper. Hist. Winds 277 We shall finde ill determined notionalls, phantasms, and imaginary things, and Axioms daily to be amended. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 325 Philosophy, which searches out the real Productions of Nature..does manifest the Divine Glory more, than the Notionals of the Gentiles. 1671 H. More Let. 7 May in Conway Lett. (1992) vi. 357 These little thinges are good notionalls to talk or discourse, but they fill the papyr too much to write. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). notionaladj. Brit. /ˈnəʊʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˈnəʊʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈnoʊʃən(ə)l/, /ˈnoʊʃn(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English nocional, 1500s–1600s notionall, 1600s– notional. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin notionalis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin notionalis of or relating to a concept or idea (from 13th cent. in British sources), spec. relating to a Trinitarian notion (c1230–50 in Bartholomaeus Anglicus: compare quot. a1398 at sense 1), of or concerned with knowledge, speculative (from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin nōtiōn- , nōtiō notion n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French notional (1485), Middle French, French notionnel (1578 in an isolated attestation; otherwise 1701), Italian nozionale (1585), Portuguese nocional (1679), Spanish nocional (1734 or earlier). I. Of or relating to a notion or idea. †1. Theology. Designating or relating to a Trinitarian notion (see notion n. 1a). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 10 Of novnes nocionales, somme beþ abstractine [read abstractiue] as..processibilitas, spirabilitas..and beþ concretiua & adiectiua..as generans..of nounes nocional somme is Iseid of o persone allone, as generans is I-seide of þe fadir and genitus & nascens of þe sone. †2. Of knowledge, philosophy, etc.: purely speculative; not based on fact or demonstration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > [adjective] > of knowledge speculativec1380 notional1597 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 259 Whatsoeuer we may..write in our books through a notionall conceipt of things needfull. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §836 They are to be set aside, being but Notional, and ill Limited; and Definite Axiomes are to be drawn out of Measured Instances. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. Proem. 3 Philosophie considered in its Particular Ideas, is either Notional or Real. 1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chymicall Princ. Pref. 9 in Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) I have a very differing esteem of the Notionall and of the Practicall part of Chymistry. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. Pref. p. xx People may be very well experienced in these Ideal or Notional Sciences, and yet be Masters of very little, or no Knowledge at all, in Things that actually exist. 1771 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 213 It is not a barely notional or speculative faith. 1831 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 115 A popular exposition of the matter applied mainly to moral, political, and other notional sciences. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma viii. 268 A notional work as distinguished from an experimental work. 3. a. Of a thing, a relation, etc.: not substantially or actually existent; existing only in thought; imaginary. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 138 Meere notionall is their [gems] value; which is in the Opinion, not in the Thing. 1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) App. vii. 163 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Distance is no Physical affection of any thing, but onley Notional. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §34 All things that exist, exist only in the mind, that is, they are purely notional. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xiii. 73 As it is founded generally upon mere notional excellencies. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xii. 247 No wonder, that..he..bewilders himself in the pursuit of notional phantoms. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 225 Her majesty seems to have remunerated empty phrases by providing notional places. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. 157 The oddest of all railways is Nelson's notional railway in New Zealand which does not exist, except as a subsidy paid to road transport. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army Gloss. 377 Loamshires,..a notional infantry regiment. Blankshires are used as an alternative. b. Inferred, supposed, or assumed to exist; conjectural; theoretical, not based on actual experience. Now also in weakened sense: nominal, token. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > equivalent to the period stated notional1949 1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life 94 It is a mind dealing with notions or notional truths. 1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent i. iv. 72 In Notional Assent as well as in inferring, the mind contemplates its own creations instead of things. 1949 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Mar. (Suppl.) 150/1 The object is to express this aggregate number of hours per week as a number of notional ‘half-days’ per week. 1956 J. Barth Floating Opera x. 104 It is one thing..to give what Cardinal Newman calls ‘notional’ assent to a proposition such as ‘There is no Justice’, quite another and more difficult matter to give it ‘real’ assent, to learn it stingingly, to the heart through involvement. 1972 Where Sept. 237/3 The standard half-hour homework, or ‘prep’ as it is called in some schools, is purely notional. 1992 Independent 7 Apr. 20/1 ‘Before Babel’..was a fascinating programme..which pushed you gently towards the conclusion that all our words derive from a single vocabulary, a notional language called Nostratic. 2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 4 Aug. For the past two years [he] has been living out of a suitcase with Los Angeles his notional base. c. spec. Of a sum of money, profit, etc.: imputed; hypothetical; conceived as existing for the purposes of a particular interpretation or theory. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > figures or comparison of figures year over year1931 notional1958 year on year1958 1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 204/3 The profit attributable to Iraq is the notional one which the oil companies regard as economic. 1964 Financial Times 3 Mar. 15/6 The formula for calculating this standard price has been drawn up so that it would leave the Corporation with a notional profit of £1·8 m. before tax. 1989 J. Greenwood & D. Wilson Public Admin. in Brit. Today (BNC) 160 Calculating a notional rental value is fraught with difficulties. 2000 Thames Water Ann. Rep. & Accts. 39 The notional value of the shares is the difference between the exercise price and the market price. 4. a. Of the nature of or relating to a concept or idea; conceptual. ΚΠ 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 8 We grant..that sin is not a mere nothing, but has some kind of logic positivitie or notional entitie. 1986 Amer. Scholar 65 505 Gender is not sex; one is natural, the other notional. 1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 278 They do not specify the boundaries of the state (a notional impossibility), but the boundaries of the interval during which the assertion of the state is validated. b. Linguistics. Of or relating to semantic content as opposed to the grammatical forms and categories by which that content is expressed. Also (of a word): carrying full meaning, not having a merely grammatical function; (of a verb) principal, main, not auxiliary. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [adjective] ideal1611 conceptive1650 conceptional1738 conceptual1825 notional1839 idealist1856 ideate1966 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [adjective] > relating to content words integral1668 notional1839 presentive1871 the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [adjective] > other types of notional1839 noematica1866 plerematic1939 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > other specific types of verb commonc1450 personal?1482 perfect1530 valuative1566 suppletive1633 auxiliary1751 active-passive1859 mutative1866 preterito-presential1875 preterite-present1888 passival1892 preteritive present1894 applicative1903 injunctive1910 activo-passive1927 ornative1934 eventive1946 notional1957 non-factive1969 contrafactive1979 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 306/2 Language as originally existing..insisted altogether of notional words, some of which were also used in a subordinate sense as relational words. 1847 J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. (1857) 5 The new method [of instruction of the study of language]..develops the distinction..between notional words, which express conceptions, and form-words, which express only relations of our conceptions. 1861 National Rev. Oct. 379 The various modifications of time, person, number, gender,..are expressed by modifications of the notional words themselves, not by distinct words. 1933 O. Jespersen Syst. Gram. 20 In ‘he happened to fall’ the notional subject is a nexus ‘he..to fall’. 1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) i. v. 64 The opposite of ‘auxiliary’ is ‘notional verb’, ‘principal verb’, or ‘verb of full meaning’. 1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Notional word, a word that carries a full meaning (‘he has luck’ vs. ‘he has gone’). 1992 D. Crystal Encycl. Dict. Lang. & Langs. 142 Notional grammar would analyse nouns, for example, as ‘names of persons, places, and things’, whereas formal grammar would describe nouns in terms of their location in sentences. †5. Of a form of insanity: characterized by the attribution of imaginary properties to things, persons, etc. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1782 T. Arnold Observ. Nature Insanity I. 73 Notional Insanity is that state of mind in which a person..perceives external objects as they really exist..yet conceives such notions of the powers, properties [etc.], of things and persons,..as appear obviously..erroneous, or unreasonable. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 5 In notional and ideal Madness, particularly the first, many symptoms are only cunningly suppressed. II. Of or relating to a person or their behaviour. †6. Given to abstract or fanciful speculation; holding merely speculative views. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] dreaminga1500 fantasied1590 chimerizing1604 vaporous1605 imaginative1626 whimsy1637 airy1643 whimmed1654 chimerical1660 figmentitious1660 notional1664 visionary1712 viewy1848 Barriesque1894 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 193 The old Dogmatists and Notional Speculators. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 170 The impertinence of those Notionall men, that enquire no further, but declare, That [etc.]. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 125. ⁋3 I would not be thought altogether notional in what I have to say, and pass only for a Projector in Morality. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxxiii. 340 Airy notional Men, Enthusiasts [etc.]. 1772 J. Wesley Jrnl. 12 Aug. I preached at Salop, and spake strong words, to the amazement of many notional believers. 7. Scottish and (now rare) U.S. (chiefly northern). Fanciful; full of fancies, whims, or caprices. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1791 Gaz. U.S. (N.Y.) 9 Feb. If a man is a little odd in his ways, his friends say he is a notional creature, or full of notions... Love is the most notional passion. 1830 O. W. Holmes Life & Lett. i. 64 What the ladies call ‘blue’, and the doctors ‘hypochondriacal’, and the old women ‘notional’. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Notional, fanciful, whimsical. Applied to persons; as, ‘He's a very notional man’. 1894 Outing 24 96/2 He did think he would have to get the room cleaned and whitewashed, as his wife was rather notional. 1926 L. Moon Drumorty 101 They were ‘very notional’, and would bring a suit back again and again for alterations. 1965 I. Reekie Melita Trail x. 133 Though often stubborn and notional, with training oxen learned to obey basic commands. 1996 S. Mootoo Cereus blooms at Night iii. 199 Finding a position would be quite impossible... It would be quickly discerned by any employer that I am incurably notional. 8. U.S. regional. Of the opinion that. ΚΠ 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. ix. 125 I'm glad if the Judge is pleased; but I'm notional that you'll find the sa'ce overdone. 1911 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Notional,..of the opinion (that); as, he's notional that he'll win. 1955 S. H. Adams Grandfather Stories 178 I'm notional that there is something queer afoot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1531adj.a1398
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