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单词 prescind
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prescindv.

Brit. /prᵻˈsɪnd/, /ˌpriːˈsɪnd/, U.S. /priˈsɪnd/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praescindere.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin praescindere to cut off, to shorten by cutting (4th or 5th cent.) < classical Latin prae- pre- prefix + scindere to cut (see scind v.). Compare Middle French prescinder to root (a weed) out (1519 in an apparently isolated attestation), French †prescinder to abstract from (a thing) (1788 in an apparently isolated attestation), Spanish prescindir to abstract from, to ignore, to pass over (early 17th cent. or earlier), Italian prescindere to leave out of consideration (1673).
1. transitive. To cut off beforehand, prematurely, or abruptly; to remove, cut away.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > preclude
warnc1000
exclude1382
forshutc1430
before-barc1449
prohibit1516
foreclose1546
seclude1566
preclude1610
prescind1636
separate1644
1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 20 The brevity of his reigne prescinded many and great hopes of his good government of the whole Empire.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ppv Therefore these surcles are prescinded, that a new spring..may follow.
1689 Consid. conc. Succession & Alleg. 17 The Crown may be so entailed..to some Persons, as to bar and prescind the Title of others.
1718 Entertainer No. 29. 196 Kings ought..if they do fall into Mischiefs to prescind the Occasions of them, as soon as they are discovered.
1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii. 8 To be sure, the law of nations does na prescind that privilege in actual war.
1809 M. J. O'Conway tr. F. Raynouard Knights Templars i. iii. 14 It was found necessary to prescind a dependance so degrading to king and state.
1872 N. Amer. Rev. July 65 Mr. Buckle does not generally care to prescind matters. It is in his nature rather to affect the circumlocutory and vague.
1994 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 28 Nov. 3 If one were to prescind the whole of federal benefits that go to the poor, you'd come up with about $140 billion per year.
2004 National Rev. 56 1 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court..granted conjugal rights to gays, and the bells tolled, as they did in San Francisco under the patronage of rump political leaders who sought to prescind the law on the question.
2.
a. transitive. To cut off, detach, or separate from; to abstract from.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from > cut off from
exilec1330
rob1340
privea1387
stop1398
privatec1425
strangec1430
interclude1569
intercept1576
circumcise1613
prescind1640
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off
becarveOE
carvec1000
hewc1000
shredc1275
cuta1300
chapc1325
cleavec1330
off-shearc1330
withscore1340
to cut offc1380
colea1400
slivea1400
to score awayc1400
abscisea1500
discidea1513
sharea1529
off-trenchc1530
off-hewc1540
pare1549
detrench1553
slice?1560
detrunk1566
sneck1578
resect1579
shred1580
curtail1594
off-chop1594
lop?1602
disbranch1608
abscind1610
snip1611
circumcise1613
desecate1623
discerpa1628
amputate1638
absciss1639
prescind1640
notch1820
1640 J. Sadler Masquarade du Ciel 7 Whether Art or Nature, Sense or Reason, could best separate, abstract, at least prescind, a Sprightly Genius from its Body.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness To Rdr. ¶28. p. xxvii If you prescind it from remission of sins..this Phrase of Imputative Righteousness has no signification at all.
1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §100 An abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure.
1790 Notes, & Observations, upon Revelation St. John i. 302 They have left so perfect and essential a description of his nature, prescinded from external circumstances, that a man may have a due and full apprehension.
1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) . 475 Nor have universal things prescinded from the particular any absolute existence.
1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano iv. 104 The Malebolge was the barranca, the ravine which wound through the country, narrow here—but its momentousness successfully prescinded their minds from the goat.
1996 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 27 July 7 a Oftentimes it is necessary to prescind the work from the surrounding environment.
b. intransitive. To separate itself, cut itself off; withdraw from. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration
to put out of ——a1250
to lay awaya1400
to set asidec1407
to lay by1439
to lay asidec1440
to let (something) walkc1450
to set apart?1473
reject1490
seclude?1531
to let go1535
to put offc1540
to set by1592
sepose1593
to think away1620
to look over ——a1640
prescind1650
seposit1657
decognize1659
inconsider1697
to set over1701
shelf1819
sink1820
shelve1847
eliminate1848
to count out1854
discounta1856
defenestrate1917
neg1987
1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη sig. A2 They would not be prejudiced by Custom,..but prescinding from that, give their understandings.
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 362 A bare act of Obliquity does not only prescind from, but also positively deny such a special dependence of it upon the will.
3.
a. intransitive. To withdraw attention from; to leave out of consideration; to ignore, put to one side.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]
fordita800
forheedc1275
forget1297
to let out ofa1300
spele1338
to go beside ——a1382
waivec1400
remiss?a1425
to go by ——?c1450
misknowledge?a1475
misknow1483
misken1494
to go besides ——1530
to let pass1530
unregard1545
unmind1562
overlook1570
mislippen1581
suspend1581
omit1589
blanch1605
to blow off1631
disregard1641
to pass with ——1641
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
prescind1654
nihilify1656
proscribe1680
unnotice1776
ignore1795
to close one's mind1797
cushion1818
to leave out in the cold1839
overslaugh1846
unheed1847
to write off1861
to look through ——1894
scrub1943
1654 T. White Apol. Rushworth's Dialogues 249 Their very words directly tel him they on purpose resolv'd to prescind from her particular Case, and not determin any thing concerning It in that Decree.
1701 W. Anstruther Ess. ii. 75 If we enlarge our thoughts and prescind from privat Circumstances,..we shall find a light breaking in upon the dark Region of our Mind.
1775 G. Hay Script. Doctr. Miracles II. xiv. 223 In all I have hitherto said, I prescind entirely from any thing related in the New Testament.
1890 W. S. Lilly Right & Wrong 98 In what I am about to write I prescind entirely from all theological theories and religious symbols.
1977 Times 13 Aug. 14/3 The various denominations..are prescinding from their differences and attending only to those matters about which they are agreed.
2005 Cross Currents (Nexis) 22 Mar. 83 The methods of religious studies generally prescind from any commitment to a particular tradition or any personal self-involvement in a religious path.
b. intransitive. prescinding from: apart from.
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1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 6 The Air..must be defin'd, prescinding from all Admistions that are extraneous to it.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. v. 135 The abstract general Idea of Man, prescinding from, and exclusive of all particular Shape, Size, Complexion, [etc.].
1788 R. Harris Scriptural Res. on Licitness of Slave-trade p. v My sole drift..is to examine..whether the [slave] Trade itself, prescinding from every other incidental circumstance, which may have rendered the practice of it hateful, or even criminal, be in its own nature licit or illicit.
1941 Far Eastern Q. 1 87 Prescinding from this misleading treatment of the mission history, the author's presentation of the Tokugawa Shogunate is most elucidating.
1990 B. Bergon Exploding Eng. (BNC) 145 The last of the Victorian sages, who were men of letters and of affairs, not academics (prescinding from Arnold's and Ruskin's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford).

Derivatives

prescindent adj. Obsolete
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1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig.: Pt. II ii. ii. 101 Which no Body who knows the prescindent Faculties of the Soul..can deny.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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