单词 | routinary |
释义 | routinaryadj. Characterized by an adherence to routine; of or relating to routine; mechanical, unvaried; (of a person) that acts according to routine. Also: that occurs, or is performed, routinely. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine routine1744 routinary1807 formal1818 routinish1830 jog-jog1837 clockworky1864 groove-like1902 1807 W. Sampson Mem. xxix. 213 Whether this scrupulous attention to routinary and practical observances does not sometimes damp the fire of the imagination and the freedom of true wit. 1855 G. H. Lewes Life & Wks. Goethe (1864) II. v. v. 62 It shows how routinary is much that we have been wont to regard as essential. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude vii He retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 23 526 Our daily occupations become more specialized, more methodical, more routinary,..and lose much of their creative gladness. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift ii. 105 With us entomology turned into some sort of routinary hallucination, like a harmless domestic ghost that sits down..every evening by the fireside. 1967 D. J. Flakoll & C. Alegria tr. M. A. Asturias Cyclone iii. 33 You are no longer a rutinary [sic; Sp. rutinario] bowler. The adventure begins. 1976 Word 27 61 The exceptionality, for today, of prenatal assessment of foetal neurophysiology will be the routinary procedure of the future. 1997 B. Wagner I'm losing You (1998) 70 Calliope..apologizing for her tardiness, which was thoughtful if slightly rehearsed, as if covering bases in a routinary fashion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1807 |
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