单词 | procursive |
释义 | procursiveadj.1 rare. That comes before, forerunning; = precursive adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > precursory precursory1605 precursive1615 precurrent1628 van-currenta1657 procursive1659 precursionary1839 precursal1845 1659 T. Case Morning Exercise Methodized xxii. 492 Sense of, and sorrow for sin as committed against God, are the procursive acts of true Repentance. 1996 M. L. Schagrin in R. S. Cohen Realism & Anti-Realism in Philos. Sci. 400 My ‘double citation’ proposal as a necessary condition for acceptance into science is similar to a recursive definition except that there is no base case and it is forward looking rather than backward based. I coin the new term procursive to characterize the necessary condition. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). procursiveadj.2 Originally: (Medicine) designating a form of epilepsy in which the seizures are characterized by a sudden, impulsive running forward; also figurative; (disused). Later: (gen.) characterized by running forward (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > fit or stroke > epilepsy > types of Jacksonian1877 procursive1888 pyknoleptic1924 musicogenic1937 audiogenic1941 photogenic1954 pressure spot1979 1888 Lancet 25 Feb. 374/2 A fourth contribution on Procursive Epilepsy. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 283 Running or ‘procursive epilepsy’. 1918 G. J. Nathan Pop. Theatre (ed. 2) i. 21 There is still a luxuriance of procursive epilepsies in which imprisoned emotional actresses bang and bawl vainly for help against locked doors. 1992 Behavioural Brain Res. 52 7 A small percentage of the animals, however, presented procursive behavior which was increased by sound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11659adj.21888 |
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