单词 | preassumed |
释义 | preassumedadj. Assumed or taken for granted beforehand. ΚΠ 1668 H. P. Cressy Church-hist. Brittany Pref. §17 A preassumed assurance..that the now Catholick Church is such an Anti-christian Congregation as they read described in the Apocalypse. a1679 I. Pennington Wks. (1784) II. 368 Those..who are not..mis-biassed by pre-assumed principles from the wrong ground. 1801 H. Marsh tr. J. D. Michaelis Introd. New Test. IV. xxxiii. §ix. 519 The love of truth is sacrificed to the support of a pre-assumed opinion. 1897 Mind 6 452 What, then, is the standpoint from which the Kritik starts? It is not that of a preassumed and dogmatically determined experience. 1958 P. Guston in J. I. H. Baur Nature in Abstraction 69 The ethics involved in ‘seeing’, as one is painting..is more actual to me than preassumed images or ideas of picture structure. 2003 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 12 Jan. 12 This..is clearly a time to put aside preassumed positions, posturing, etc. and to renew an understanding of the good that is to be presented. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1668 |
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