单词 | omissible |
释义 | omissibleadj. 1. That may be omitted. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adjective] > omitted > able to be omissiblea1832 a1832 J. Bentham Chrestomathia in Wks. (1843) VIII. 14/2 Least generally useful branches..in case of necessity, omissible. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. ii. 158 All mere puddle, omissible in this place. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 27 Apr. 315/3 There is nothing omitted nor anything omissible. 1937 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 31 744 It was, however, even for a text-book, long and diffuse, partly because of the inclusion of omissible historical material. 1954 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 19 177 A vacuous quantifier is always simply redundant and omissible. 1995 R. Widdess Rāgas of Early Indian Music ii. 59 Each jāti is characterized by certain melodic features, such as frequent and infrequent or omissible notes. 2. Linguistics. Of a word, phrase, construction, etc.: that may be omitted without impairing the syntactic acceptability of a sentence or clause. ΚΠ 1875 W. D. Whitney Outl. Linguistic Sci. xii. 255 The third person [pronoun] being omissible when a subject noun is expressed. 1984 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 13 374 Hacer is omissible in some syntactic contexts. 1999 G. K. Pullman in R. S. Wheeler Workings Lang. 46 She been married means ‘She is married and has been for some considerable time,’ and the been is not omissible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1832 |
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