单词 | protogenic |
释义 | protogenicadj.1 1. Original, primary; of or belonging to the first or earliest stage. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [adjective] authentic1407 untransumed1526 authentical1565 primary1565 exampleless1603 unimitatedc1610 unfollowed1630 originary1679 uncopied1737 unimitating1751 unreprinted1775 unimitative1807 protogenic1855 1855 G. E. Day tr. K. G. Lehmann Physiol. Chem. (new ed.) I. 289 It indicates which of these substances are to be regarded as original and protogenic in the animal body. 1860 H. Reeve Let. 16 May in J. K. Laughton Mem. Life & Corr. H. Reeve (1898) II. 45 To put Macaulay on a level with Newton and Bacon would be absurd. His mind was essentially what the geologists would call ‘a tertiary formation’; theirs were ‘protogenic’. 1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) I. i. ix. 254 The former especially adheres to the protogenic character of the Celtae. 1965 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 16 139 The uniqueness of the document..lies in the fact that it is a protogenic law, a testimonial of revolution instead of evolution. 1990 J. Bleicher tr. J. Habermas in G. L. Ormiston & A. D. Schrift Hermeneutic Trad. x. 255 There exists within the self a barrier to communication between the ‘I’..and that ‘inner exile’..that is represented by the symbolic system of a private or protogenic language. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [adjective] > primary or hypogene hypogene1833 nether-formed1833 protogenic1877 primary1886 1877 C. H. Hitchcock in Geol. New Hampsh. ii. 431 We ought not to incorporate with these protogenic rocks other gneisses similarly enclosed. 1883 Science Aug. 295/1 We find..many domes of diabasic or protogenic schists. ΚΠ 1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. ii. 99 A distinction..between those intercellular spaces which are formed when the tissues begin to differentiate,—protogenic,—and those formed in older tissues,—hysterogenic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). protogenicadj.2 Chemistry. Of a substance, molecular species, etc.: able to supply a hydrogen atom for protonation; proton-donating; = protic adj. Opposed to protophilic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > solvents and solutes > [adjective] protogenic1930 protophilic1930 protolytic1931 1930 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 52 5120 The basicity constant of a given base dissolved in a protogenic solvent HX. 1969 R. G. Bates in J. F. Coetzee & C. D. Ritchie Solute-solvent Interactions ii. 51 The four classes of solvents, ‘amphiprotic’, ‘protogenic’, ‘protophilic’, and ‘aprotic’, are not clearly restrictive and the proper classification of many solvents is in doubt. 1973 E. J. King in Covington & Dickinson Physical Chem. Org. Solvent Syst. iii. 333 Formic acid is an obvious example of an acidic or protogenic solvent, but it has weak basic properties too. 1998 Carbon 36 899/1 The substitution of the protons of the surface protogenic groups for metal ions enhances their catalytic activity in these reactions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11855adj.21930 |
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