单词 | omnitemporal |
释义 | omnitemporaladj.n. 1. Involving or relating to all times; having force or validity at all times; timeless. Occasionally as n. with the. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [adjective] > relating to all times omnitemporal1883 all-time1929 1883 B. F. Westcott Historic Faith (ed. 2) xi. 144 The ‘eternal’ does not in essence express the infinite extension of time but the absence of time: not the omni-temporal but the supra-temporal. 1961 Econ. Jrnl. 71 250 A man cannot stand outside of time and of his own immediate present, and weigh the immediate expediency, by some objective, impersonal, omni-temporal standard, of this act or that. 1970 P. A. Bertocci Person God Is xii. 223 Why not reconceive the perfection of God..in a way consistent with his omnitemporal unity and continuity? 1991 Mind 100 158 Lucas first distinguishes timeless or omnitemporal truth (‘Truth’), conceived as a kind of abstraction irrelevant to metaphysical issues. 2. Linguistics. Including in its meaning all the various tenses. ΚΠ 1890 Classical Rev. Oct. 381/1 In this sense it [sc. the Infinitive] may be called timeless = omnitemporal. 1952 P. F. Strawson Introd. Logical Theory viii. 215 The present tense, in which they [sc. sentences embodying necessary statements] are generally, though not necessarily framed, is not the omnitemporal, but the timeless present. 1975 F. M. Cross & D. N. Freedman Stud. in Anc. Yahwistic Poetry i. 40 (note) The term ‘omnitemporal’ implies that the yqtl may have past or future significance in all cases. 1997 R. P. Honeck Prov. in Mind i. 23 Proverbs can take on practically any syntactic form.., although a standard omnitemporal propositional form is typical. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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