单词 | palaetiological |
释义 | palaetiologicalpaletiologicaladj. Now historical. Of, belonging to, or using palaetiology. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [adjective] aetiological1606 aetiologic1656 palaetiological1837 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xviii. Introd. 486 Palætiological sciences..undertake to refer changes to their causes. 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. II. ii. i. 95 The class of sciences which I designate as Palætiological are those in which the object is to ascend from the present state of things to a more ancient condition, from which the present is derived by intelligible causes. 1859 F. M. Müller Sci. Lang. (1864) 1st Ser. ii. 29 Dr. Whewell classes the science of language as one of the palaitiological sciences. 1991 M. J. S. Hodge in M. Fischer & S. Schaffer W. Whewell x. 260 Although several other sciences—glossology, for example, or philology as others were already calling it—count as palaetiological, it was geology that was Whewell's original exemplar of the genre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1837 |
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