procatarcticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌprəʊkəˈtɑːktɪk/, U.S.

/ˌproʊkəˈtɑrktɪk/

Forms: 1600s procatarcticke, 1600s procatarticke, 1600s procatarctique, 1600s–1700s procatarctick, 1600s–1700s procatartick, 1600s– procatarctic, 1700s procatartic.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin procatarcticus; Greek προκαταρκτικός.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin procatarcticus (6th cent.; 15th cent. in a British source) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek προκαταρκτικός initial, predisposing, also προκαταρκτικά (use as noun of neuter plural) immediate exciting causes of things < ancient Greek προ- pro- prefix² + Hellenistic Greek καταρκτικός forming the beginning ( < ancient Greek κατα- cata- prefix + Hellenistic Greek ἀρκτικός initial < the stem of ancient Greek ἄρχειν to begin (see archon n.²) + ancient Greek -τικός , suffix forming adjectives from verbs), after Hellenistic Greek προκατάρχειν to begin first. Compare French procatarctique (16th cent. in Middle French in Paré; now rare). With sense A. 2 compare earlier procatarctical adj.

A. adj.

1. Chiefly Medicine. Designating an exciting, remote, or occasional cause; spec. designating a cause (usually external) which brings about disease in a predisposed patient. Cf. proegumenal adj. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause

nigh1551

next1581

procatarctical1601

procatarctic1603

objective1620

defective1624

univocala1640

proximate1641

propinque1649

proxime1649

proegumene1650

proegumenal1656

con-causal1660

proegumenical1663

propinquate1665

proegumenous1676

synectical1697

proegumenic1711

proximous1724

proximal1828

synectic1869

monocausal1937

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > from external cause

procatarctic1603

exogenetic1874

exogenous1883

heterochthonous1891

exogenic1900

xenogenous1901

1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Procatarcticke causes of sicknesse, be such as are evident and comming from without, which yeeld occasion of disease, but do not mainteine the same: as the heat of the Sunne, causing headach or the ague.

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 185 I can but wonder at Arminius and others, seeking in the vessels of mercie, the procatarcticke cause of election.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xii. 132 The procatarctick or external causes of Pulmonique Consumptions.

1738 tr. J. Keill in Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) 234 No procatartic Cause appears of so great Perspiration in the Night.

1758 J. Ball Treat. Fevers iii. 25 The common or external procatarctic causes of Intermitting Fevers, therefor, are whatever have a tendency to unbend the spring of the fibres.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 40 In early times the causes of diseases chiefly contemplated were Proegumenal or predisponent, and Procatarctic or occasional. Thus, an hereditary taint..may be regarded as a proegumenal cause of gout; and catching cold..may form its procatarctic cause.

1889 Cent. Dict. at Cause The physicians, following Galen, recognized three kinds of causes, the procatarctic, proëgumenal, and synectic.

1938 Biometrika 29 269 It is a fair conclusion that the disease is really in some aetiological connexion with town life (whether by procatarctic factors or by selection is an open question).

1999 N. Saakwa-Mante in W. Ernst & B. Harris Race, Sci. & Med. 41 John Atkins considered all the ascribed procatarctic causes (both constitutional and non-constitutional) to be important. None acting alone could lead to illness.

2. gen. Designating a primary or initial cause or factor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause > primary (of cause)

first-movingc1405

procatarctical1601

procatarctic1633

primar1642

1633 G. Downame Treat. Justif. ii. 9 Christs merits, which properly are the procatarcticke cause of our justification.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (at cited word) Procatarctick cause, that cause which foregoeth or beginneth another cause.

1689 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: L. Cary (1898) I. 152 It so broke and weakned the king's army, that 'twas the procatarctique cause of his ruine.

1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 311 Whoever would accuse Ignorance, Stupidity, and Dastardness, as the first, and what Physicians call the Procatartic Cause, let him examine into the Lives..and Actions of ordinary Rogues and our common Felons, and he will find the reverse to be true.

1911 LoveToKnow Encycl. (Electronic text) s.v. Descartes He maintains that the bodily movements are merely procatarctic causes (i.e. antecedents, but not strictly causes) of the mental action.

1952 M. A. Elliott Crime Mod. Society 321 The procatarctic causes of moral depravity (which produces the crime) lay in inherited peculiarities, arrested nutrition, infection, etc.

1998 S. Bobzien Determinism & Freedom in Stoic Philos. (2001) vi. 328 Moreover no source confirms that fate itself is a procatarctic cause.

†B. n.

Medicine. A procatarctic cause of a disease; = procatarxis n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > cause of disease

conjunct causec1400

continent cause1605

procatarctic1666

procatarxis1681

germ1700

predisponent1771

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxviii. 155 Those Procatarcticks that required a larger comment, as love, grief, &c. we have discoursed of in particular Chapt.

1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 212 It is a procatarctic of the scurvy.

1741 J. Douglas Short Diss. Gout 5 'Tis in vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of Ætiologies, pathognomics, procatartics, prognostics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	procatarctic
释义	procatarcticadj.n. Brit. /ˌprəʊkəˈtɑːktɪk/, U.S. /ˌproʊkəˈtɑrktɪk/ Forms: 1600s procatarcticke, 1600s procatarticke, 1600s procatarctique, 1600s–1700s procatarctick, 1600s–1700s procatartick, 1600s– procatarctic, 1700s procatartic. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin procatarcticus; Greek προκαταρκτικός. Etymology: < post-classical Latin procatarcticus (6th cent.; 15th cent. in a British source) or its etymon Hellenistic Greek προκαταρκτικός initial, predisposing, also προκαταρκτικά (use as noun of neuter plural) immediate exciting causes of things < ancient Greek προ- pro- prefix² + Hellenistic Greek καταρκτικός forming the beginning ( < ancient Greek κατα- cata- prefix + Hellenistic Greek ἀρκτικός initial < the stem of ancient Greek ἄρχειν to begin (see archon n.²) + ancient Greek -τικός , suffix forming adjectives from verbs), after Hellenistic Greek προκατάρχειν to begin first. Compare French procatarctique (16th cent. in Middle French in Paré; now rare). With sense A. 2 compare earlier procatarctical adj. A. adj. 1. Chiefly Medicine. Designating an exciting, remote, or occasional cause; spec. designating a cause (usually external) which brings about disease in a predisposed patient. Cf. proegumenal adj. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause nigh1551 next1581 procatarctical1601 procatarctic1603 objective1620 defective1624 univocala1640 proximate1641 propinque1649 proxime1649 proegumene1650 proegumenal1656 con-causal1660 proegumenical1663 propinquate1665 proegumenous1676 synectical1697 proegumenic1711 proximous1724 proximal1828 synectic1869 monocausal1937 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > from external cause procatarctic1603 exogenetic1874 exogenous1883 heterochthonous1891 exogenic1900 xenogenous1901 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Procatarcticke causes of sicknesse, be such as are evident and comming from without, which yeeld occasion of disease, but do not mainteine the same: as the heat of the Sunne, causing headach or the ague. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 185 I can but wonder at Arminius and others, seeking in the vessels of mercie, the procatarcticke cause of election. 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xii. 132 The procatarctick or external causes of Pulmonique Consumptions. 1738 tr. J. Keill in Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) 234 No procatartic Cause appears of so great Perspiration in the Night. 1758 J. Ball Treat. Fevers iii. 25 The common or external procatarctic causes of Intermitting Fevers, therefor, are whatever have a tendency to unbend the spring of the fibres. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 40 In early times the causes of diseases chiefly contemplated were Proegumenal or predisponent, and Procatarctic or occasional. Thus, an hereditary taint..may be regarded as a proegumenal cause of gout; and catching cold..may form its procatarctic cause. 1889 Cent. Dict. at Cause The physicians, following Galen, recognized three kinds of causes, the procatarctic, proëgumenal, and synectic. 1938 Biometrika 29 269 It is a fair conclusion that the disease is really in some aetiological connexion with town life (whether by procatarctic factors or by selection is an open question). 1999 N. Saakwa-Mante in W. Ernst & B. Harris Race, Sci. & Med. 41 John Atkins considered all the ascribed procatarctic causes (both constitutional and non-constitutional) to be important. None acting alone could lead to illness. 2. gen. Designating a primary or initial cause or factor. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause > primary (of cause) first-movingc1405 procatarctical1601 procatarctic1633 primar1642 1633 G. Downame Treat. Justif. ii. 9 Christs merits, which properly are the procatarcticke cause of our justification. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (at cited word) Procatarctick cause, that cause which foregoeth or beginneth another cause. 1689 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: L. Cary (1898) I. 152 It so broke and weakned the king's army, that 'twas the procatarctique cause of his ruine. 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 311 Whoever would accuse Ignorance, Stupidity, and Dastardness, as the first, and what Physicians call the Procatartic Cause, let him examine into the Lives..and Actions of ordinary Rogues and our common Felons, and he will find the reverse to be true. 1911 LoveToKnow Encycl. (Electronic text) s.v. Descartes He maintains that the bodily movements are merely procatarctic causes (i.e. antecedents, but not strictly causes) of the mental action. 1952 M. A. Elliott Crime Mod. Society 321 The procatarctic causes of moral depravity (which produces the crime) lay in inherited peculiarities, arrested nutrition, infection, etc. 1998 S. Bobzien Determinism & Freedom in Stoic Philos. (2001) vi. 328 Moreover no source confirms that fate itself is a procatarctic cause. †B. n. Medicine. A procatarctic cause of a disease; = procatarxis n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > cause of disease conjunct causec1400 continent cause1605 procatarctic1666 procatarxis1681 germ1700 predisponent1771 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxviii. 155 Those Procatarcticks that required a larger comment, as love, grief, &c. we have discoursed of in particular Chapt. 1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 212 It is a procatarctic of the scurvy. 1741 J. Douglas Short Diss. Gout 5 'Tis in vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of Ætiologies, pathognomics, procatartics, prognostics. 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