单词 | radicality |
释义 | radicalityn. The state, condition, or fact of being radical. a. The state or condition of being or forming a root or basis. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun] > state of being fundamental fundamentality1641 radicality1646 radicity1651 primordiality1706 ultimacy1842 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 147 Equivocall seeds and Hermaphroditicall principles, which contain the radicality and power of different formes. View more context for this quotation 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 269 Numerous and strong testimonies like these prove the radicality of the question. 1886 Lancet 29 May 1025/2 There is a radicality in this method of dealing with the electrical conditions of the human body which to the logical mind commends itself. b. Mathematics. The fact or state of being the root of a number or quantity. Cf. radical n. 4a, radix n. 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > root > quality of radicality1685 1685 J. Wallis Treat. Algebra xxv. 107 I..prefix the Root of such Power to the note of Radicality. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Radical √ is the Character of Radicality, and expresses the Square Root. 1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 445 There remains only the radicality q⅛ occurring in the expressions of the v's. 2. a. The state, condition, or fact of being socially or politically radical; = radicalism n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the left > radicalism radicalism1817 radicality1819 radical left1870 Jacobinism1888 pinkness1918 New Left1955 1819 J. W. Croker Let. 29 Nov. in Notes & Queries (1943) 185 154 I hope to have a sketch of Scotch radicality from you. I like that word (which my pen has just invented in spite of me) it is so like rascality: and it might be well defended that Radical produces Radicality as Rascal produces Rascality. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 549 John remained a year or so opposed to Radicality. 1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. Jan. 75/1 Becoming..one of the evil legion of toryism, after all his radicality. 1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 547 The apparent radicality of its thesis has proved to be purely verbal. 1979 Dædalus Winter 30 The radicality of these changes..had lent credence to the set of beliefs described above. 1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 20 Apr. i. 4/1 She was treated as an artist with many styles and no coherent profile, which made it hard for people to understand the radicality of what she had done. ΚΠ 1832 J. Wilson Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 722 We shall play one section of you against the other this day, and both sections against the radicality the next. 3. Surgery. The degree to which a surgical operation is radical (radical adj. 6). ΚΠ 1951 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 81 112/1 No influence on radicality of the operation can be invoked. 1962 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 83 1189 (title) The concept of radicality in gynecologic cancer surgery. 1996 Current Opinion Oncol. 8 402 Surgical techniques have developed during the 20th century with a tendency toward increasing radicality in order to deal with those cancers with a propensity for locoregional spread. 2006 Neurosurgery 59 570 Recurrent cases could only be treated with lower grades of radicality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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