protheticaladj.

Brit.

/prɒˈθɛtɪkl/,

/prə(ʊ)ˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/, U.S.

/prəˈθɛdᵻk(ə)l/,

/proʊˈθɛdᵻk(ə)l/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek προθετικός , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < ancient Greek προθετικός prothetic adj. + -al suffix¹ (compare -thetical comb. form), after prothesis n. Compare earlier prothetic adj.

1. Posited or going before; antecedent. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1819–21 in S. T. Coleridge Coll. Wks. (2002) XV. 301 It must have all the essential attributes of reality: namely.., it must be self-actual and having a being prothetical to either of the two modes of existence within the mind.

1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 91 A poet is necessarily a synthetical, if, indeed, he be not rather a higher, a prothetical agent.

1901 Philos. Rev. 10 559 The scholasticism which grew up inside the Moslem Church had for its object the synthesizing of the philosophical and the prothetical accounts of the being of God.

1958 Philos. Rev. 67 70 It was one of the aims of dialectic as practised in the Academy, and to achieve it a wide range of prothetical p.w. [= positing words] was required.

†2. Of a religious symbol: not only expressing a spiritual truth, but identical with it. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 258 The language of Scripture..the style not being so much symbolical or typical as prothetical, if we may coin the word; the natural things which we too generally understand as figures of speech..being used not only as direct exponents of the spiritual,..but as one and the same with them.

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

单词	prothetical
释义	protheticaladj. Brit. /prɒˈθɛtɪkl/, /prə(ʊ)ˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/, U.S. /prəˈθɛdᵻk(ə)l/, /proʊˈθɛdᵻk(ə)l/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek προθετικός , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < ancient Greek προθετικός prothetic adj. + -al suffix¹ (compare -thetical comb. form), after prothesis n. Compare earlier prothetic adj. 1. Posited or going before; antecedent. Now rare. ΚΠ 1819–21 in S. T. Coleridge Coll. Wks. (2002) XV. 301 It must have all the essential attributes of reality: namely.., it must be self-actual and having a being prothetical to either of the two modes of existence within the mind. 1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 91 A poet is necessarily a synthetical, if, indeed, he be not rather a higher, a prothetical agent. 1901 Philos. Rev. 10 559 The scholasticism which grew up inside the Moslem Church had for its object the synthesizing of the philosophical and the prothetical accounts of the being of God. 1958 Philos. Rev. 67 70 It was one of the aims of dialectic as practised in the Academy, and to achieve it a wide range of prothetical p.w. [= positing words] was required. †2. Of a religious symbol: not only expressing a spiritual truth, but identical with it. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 258 The language of Scripture..the style not being so much symbolical or typical as prothetical, if we may coin the word; the natural things which we too generally understand as figures of speech..being used not only as direct exponents of the spiritual,..but as one and the same with them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1819
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