单词 | reason-wrought |
释义 | > as lemmasreason-wrought C1. General attributive, objective, and instrumental, as reason-monger, reason-plating [after armour plating n.] , reason-poisoning, †reason-renderer, †reason-scanner, etc., nouns; reason-contained, reason-derived, reason-wrought, etc., adjectives; reason-giving adj. and n. ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 191 This assignation of cause the Greekes called Etiologia... We also call him the reason-rendrer. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 106 Reason-scanners haue resolued all, That heauie things hang'd in the Aire, must fall. 1833 Brit. Critic 14 180 That in these times, we say, the reason-mongers should make a desperate struggle to obtain a hearing for their theories, were a wise, and politic, and consistent part. 1844 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 482/1 The dry but reason-giving pages of Euclid. 1870 Spectator 24 Dec. 1536/1 If his heavy artillery could not penetrate the thick reason-plating of the states~men, it was passion-proof. 1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic §36. 61 A reason-derived knowledge of God is the highest problem of philosophy. 1888 F. M. Crawford With Immortals I. 69 Doctor Saul Ascher, who died an abstract death from reason-poisoning. 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd i. ii. 16 Here, then, ends My hope for Europe's reason-wrought repose! 1933 W. S. Dell & C. F. Baynes tr. C. G. Jung Mod. Man in Search of Soul viii. 186 In works of art of this nature..we cannot doubt that the vision is a genuine, primordial experience, regardless of what reason-mongers may say. 1973 Art Internat. Mar. 75/2 The frost of the passage, its chill, reason-contained fire is even more remarkable. 2006 New Yorker 10 Apr. 81/1 Reason-giving, Tilly says, reflects, establishes, repairs, and negotiates relationships. < as lemmas |
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