单词 | originative |
释义 | originativeadj. Having the quality or power of originating something; productive, creative, inventive, original. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] imaginativec1405 inventivec1450 feigning1483 creativea1513 inventative1541 inventious1591 conceitful1594 forgetive1600 productive1612 projecting1614 excogitous1646 plastic1662 ingeniary1664 formful1730 forgeful1751 inventful1797 original-minded1797 original1803 originative1811 vivid1814 fingent1837 constructive1841 right-brained1871 poietic1905 1811 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 58 My mind is not originative, but concoctive. 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 26 Consideration and meditation thereon, are originative of a knowledge of the true nature of the soul. 1875 I. Taylor Transmission Anc. Bks. xv. 205 The imitative, more than originative turn of the Roman mind. 1886 J. H. Shorthouse Sir Percival 79 Persons of a not very originative habit of mind. 1956 A. Henderson G. B. Shaw: Man of Cent. 597 He makes no claim to be a creative or originative thinker who devises new cosmic theories. 1996 M. Hanna Mobilization of Intellect iv. 114 Aulard identified the Revolution as an originative social act that redefined the moral principles upon which political authority rested. Derivatives oˈriginatively adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adverb] fantastically1547 conceitedly1588 devicefullya1631 creatively1713 inventively1847 originatively1858 1858 H. Bushnell Nature & Supernatural iv. 110 He is..able in his action to set himself above all natural causes and act originatively. 1979 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 40 224 The possibility of a nonobjectifying..theology is tied to the possibility of overcoming the entire metaphysical tradition of the West as Heidegger conceives it and learning to think ‘originatively’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1811 |
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