单词 | prescission |
释义 | prescissionn. The action of prescind v.; a cutting off, removal. See also precision n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > abruptly precision1529 prescission1583 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke Pref. sig. *vi v The interception and præscision of diseases is very auaileable. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 2 If, in comparing thy knauery, my full points seeme as tedious to thy puritane perusers as the Northeren mans mile and a waybitte to the weary passenger..till I see what market commission thou hast to assist any mans sentences, I will neuer subscribe to thy periode prescisme [read prescission]. c1880 C. S. Peirce Notes on Categories MS. Papers We can suppose uncolored space, though we cannot dissociate space from color. I call this mode of separation Prescission. 1890 Cent. Dict. Prescission, the act of prescinding. 1954 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 14 489 It could not fail to suffer from this self-imposed prescission. 1980 Dædalus Spring 34 Pre-(s)cission, the analytical severing of part from part, is not enough..to deal with the new holism of the implicate order. 1999 P. M. Brennan & J. E. Coons By Nature Equal Index 360 See also range property prescission from exigence of double equality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1583 |
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