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单词 quatenus
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quatenusadv.

Brit. /ˈkweɪtᵻnəs/, /ˈkwɑːtᵻnəs/, U.S. /ˈkwɑdənəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quātenus.
Etymology: < classical Latin quātenus as far as, to which extent, in so far as < quā as far as, by which route, in so far as (see qua prep.) + tenus as far as, up to (see ore tenus adv.). Compare later qua prep.
Now rare.
In so far as; in the quality or capacity of; = qua prep.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [adverb] > in its character or in the capacity of
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1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 18 You had best saie now I speake against good men: quatenus they are good, Martin, I am their Orator.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 72 His horses (quatenus horses) are prouendred as epicurely.
1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master 251 The axiom is not a false axiom, quatenus an axiom in Logicke, but quatenus we look at the matter of it, for its truth or falshood in naturall Philosophy.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 87 A broken Oath is, quatenus Oath, As sound t' all purposes of Troath.
1697 J. Dennis Plot & no Plot iv. i. 52 Tho the Viscount be my superiour quatenus Viscount, yet he, in all things also, does me the honour to esteem himself my equal.
1712 Mr Walpole's Case 36 A man may certainly, quatenus Member, offend in many instances.
1756 J. Byrom Epist. IV. upon Pentecost x, in Misc. Poems (1773) I. 280 ‘Tongues’, quatenus ‘new’, mean always precisely what ‘Languages’ do.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xviii. 458 The parson, quatenus parson, shall never die, any more than the king.
1833 P. Bingham Rep. Court Common Pleas 9 104 Jones Serjt. obtained a rule nisi to set this order aside, quatenus the costs, on the ground that a judge at chambers had not authority to order costs.
1865 G. Grote Plato II. xx. 3 Health, quatenus Health, is the same in a man or a woman.
1911 E. Freund Cases Admin. Law vii. 273 His error was a judicial error—an act done quatenus judge, not an act as Howell, the private person, though it was an act contrary to law.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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