单词 | privant |
释义 | † privantn.adj. Obsolete. rare. A. n. In traditional (esp. Ramist) logic: a statement in which a habit (habit n. 11) is denied by its privation (privation n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > negativity or negation > a negative thing privant1586 negation1707 minus quantity1843 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xii. 59 An absence of one quallity, is not..an inferring of the other: but only in priuants, wherof the one is a meere absence. 1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master i. xvii. 163 They are so called, because of the priuant that pulls the habit out of the house, as it were. 1632 R. Fage tr. P. Ramus Dialectica I. xvii. 27 Privants are contraries denying, of which one denieth in the same subiect onely, in which the affirmatiue (of its owne nature) is. B. adj. Of or relating to privation or a privant (see sense A.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > negative wickeda1300 privativea1398 negative1565 sorrow1568 privant1629 minus1776 impositivec1856 1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master i. xiv. 148 Logicke makes onely two kindes of nothings, the contradicent..and the priuant. 1890 Cent. Dict. Privant, noting privative opposites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1586 |
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