单词 | prescind |
释义 | prescindv. 1. transitive. To cut off beforehand, prematurely, or abruptly; to remove, cut away. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). DerivativesΚΠ 1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig.: Pt. II ii. ii. 101 Which no Body who knows the prescindent Faculties of the Soul..can deny. 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