单词 | reductively |
释义 | reductivelyadv. 1. By consequence or inference, indirectly. Cf. reductive adj. 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adverb] > indirectly or as a secondary consequence occasionallya1425 reflectively1618 reductively1624 reflexively1631 secondarily1637 consecutively1644 consequentially1652 reflexly1654 secondarly1771 reductionally1967 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [adverb] by consequent1489 inferringly1571 of consequence1573 conclusionally1574 by consequence1581 reductively1624 deductivelya1641 porismatically1646 conclusively1657 concludently1673 inferentially1691 inductivelya1716 ex vi terminia1726 inferably1903 inferribly1905 1624 J. Ussher Briefe Declar. Universalitie of Church 60 All these are brought to God reductively, if not as explications of his Nature, yet of his Workes & Kingdome. 1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned Pref. 37 Ceremonies called Sacred are of two sorts, Properly so called, or Reductively. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 129 Insinuating, that all the laws that regulate man's duty are virtually or reductively comprised there. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 298 Tho' they are not matter of conscience, simply and apart, they are so reductively, with a regard to other considerations. 1817 J. Brown Gospel Truth Stated (1831) 141 There is not a conditional promise in the Bible but what is reductively absolute. 1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. 11 Some things are said to be according to Natural Law, which are not so properly, but, as the schools love to speak, reductively. 1891 Catholic World 53 397 The truth of the Christian revelation is evident by a demonstration which is directly moral, but reductively metaphysical. 1998 M. Rozemond Descartes's Dualism iv. 130 Substantial forms..fall under the category of substance reductively, not directly. 2. By means of reanalysis in more fundamental terms, simplification, etc. (cf. reduction n. 16a); in simple terms; (depreciatively) by means of excessive simplification, simplistically. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > made simple simplifiedly1683 reductively1907 1907 Mind 16 282 The Lebenssystem, or the Syntagma..gives the key to the meaning; and we can either proceed reductively, referring the facts to the system, or show how the system develops itself into its details. 1959 Mind 68 280 Expressions in one category may, when one comes to value-theory, turn out to be reductively definable in terms of expressions in another. 1989 E. S. Person Love & Fateful Encounters 349 We cannot understand ourselves as completely or reductively as we sometimes claim. 1997 D. Deutsch Fabric of Reality i. 19 That is to say, science allegedly explains things reductively—by analysing them into components. 3. Chemistry. By means of or by a process involving reduction (reduction n. 11c). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adverb] > by means of named chemical reactions or processes > by means of miscellaneous other processes greedily1584 spontaneously1771 mercurially1881 reductively1931 1931 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 53 2216 The organomagnesium halide functions in this reaction chiefly to remove the elements of hydrochloric acid, and to open reductively the 4,5-ether bridge of α-chlorocodide. 1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) vi. 193 Acetals (or ketals) are also reductively cleaved to yield an ether and an alcohol. 1998 European Jrnl. Biochem. 252 45 The..lipoyl domain of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is also..reductively acetylated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1624 |
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