单词 | retroduce |
释义 | retroducev.ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > again or in previous position restorec1425 repone?1440 repose?1440 remise1481 replace1587 recollocate1598 reimplace1611 to put backa1625 refit1649 retroduce1659 relodge1660 reposit1800 reship1804 reshift1822 reset1829 1659 J. Rogers Διαπολιτεία 82 He [sc. Clisthenes] was one of the first that introduced this Government by Ostracisme, and one of the first that felt it, and would have retro-duced it. 1670 G. Thompson Ἁιματιασις iii. 6 Bloud like Mercury may be Polymorphised and changed into divers shapes, and at length be retroduced to the same state and condition, as when it was in its Primitive essence. 1724 tr. H. van Deventer New Improvem. Art Midwifery v. 75 If a Knee offer itself, or one, or both Feet, the Knee must be retroduced, but both the Feet be laid upon the Orifice, and the Infant is thus to be drawn out. 1855 Buffalo Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 24 468 If the flexion be very marked, this instrument, after being withdrawn, should be retroduced with its curve reversed to that of the flexion. 2. transitive. With to: to explain (observed facts or phenomena) by inferring a cause or source; also intransitive. Also: to form (a conclusion, hypothesis, etc.) using retroduction. Cf. retroduction n. 3. ΚΠ 1911 H. M. Kallen tr. H. Gross Criminal Psychol. ii. 380 Numbers of such phenomena, many of them quite unbelievable in appearance, may be retroduced [Ger. sind..zurückzuführen] to similar sources. 1958 N. R. Hanson Patterns of Discov. v. 107 For Newton the law, as it was first retroduced, did not simply ‘cap’ a cluster of prior observations. 1966 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 10 262 Suppose the evidence of fact in the earlier time refuted the conclusion retroduced from the hypothesis of the later time. 1996 M. O'Donovan-Anderson Incorporated Self ix. 156 We retroduce to an entity from the observed effects of that entity. 2009 H. C. Romesburg Best Res. Pract. 128 Once the Big Bang hypothesis was retroduced, it was tested with the H-D method. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1659 |
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