单词 | pertinency |
释义 | pertinencyn.1 1. The quality of being pertinent; = pertinence n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun] pertinency1603 pertinence1610 touch1612 applicability1644 applicableness1647 relevancy1678 pertinentness1727 application1731 relevance1787 applicancy1808 extendibility1820 generality1830 germaneness1872 pointfulness1897 aboutness1906 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 73 Making choice of his reasons, loving pertinency, and by consequence brevitie. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. ii. 293 Because of their pertinency and usefulness in the Matter now in hand. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. vi. 320 The pertinency of it to our present concern. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. ii. ii. 374 Still less is there of pertinency in Mr. Hume's eulogium. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vii. 607 Innumerable things, of no pertinency to us, are wearisomely told. 1968 N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 79/2 A deft and good-natured satirical edge to give the show a contemporary pertinency. 1999 Hist. Teacher 32 171 Teachers also sometimes have doubts about the pertinency of AP for some students. 2. As a count noun: an instance of this; a pertinent fact, detail, etc.Apparently rare in 17th and 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun] > an instance of application?1495 pertinency1654 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 208 On occasion to draw out Pertinencies to some emergent. 1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer Preamble Made forth explicitely in every Essential and Circumstantial pertinency thereof. 1941 Science 3 Jan. 5/1 This admission of hazard in the venture, standing as a boundary post between observed facts and possible pertinencies. 1991 M. A. Mills Rhetorics & Politics in Afghan Trad. Storytelling x. 251 Through such lists the reader is invited to consider a range of possible pertinencies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pertinencyn.2 rare. Now historical. = appurtenance n. 1. Cf. pertinence n.1 Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > an adjunct to property pertinence1379 pertinent1396 tachment?a1400 connex1540 annexation1611 pertinency1651 pertainment1674 appendage1694 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 105 Nor can a prescription be of those pertinencies whose principles have not a perpetuall and durable continuance. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 127 The thanage of Kintore which was made over in 1375 ‘saving the pertinencies [L. pertinenciis] and our kanes’ by Robert II to John de Dunbar, Earl of Moray. 1979 D. Church & E. S. Gowers Across Low Meadow i. 9 In 1268 he was cross examined... The evidence of the witness is recorded as follows:..‘In the Manor of Harding with all its pertinancies..there are of custom four plough teams.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11603n.21651 |
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