单词 | adjunctive |
释义 | adjunctiveadj.n. A. adj. Of, relating to, of the nature of, or characteristic of an adjunct (in various senses); that is an adjunct. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to an adjunct adjunctive1668 adjunct1870 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. iv. 314 The third combination are all of them Causal, either Adjunctive of the end; whether cause or Event; Affirmative or Negative. 1713 T. H. Form of Holy Scriptural Divinity ii. xiii. 347 A Decalogical Sabbath, which hath two essential Parts, with an adjunctive Part, and so in all three Parts. 1778 R. Robinson in tr. J. Claude Ess. Composition Serm. I. v. 415/2 (note) Those divines, who have written on these subjects, arrange these articles under what they call adjunctive arguments. 1800 N. Drake Lit. Hours (ed. 2) II. 450 The imagery and adjunctive circumstances are original. 1852 I. Taylor Restoration of Belief (1855) ii. 189 These affirmations are all of them adjunctive to his proper subject. 1859 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Princ. Beauty i. vi. §18 The adjunctive phases of Beauty may be broadly classed under two heads. 1907 A. Davenport Stage Affairs in Amer. Today 12 Feb. 2 The music should not..be any more than an adjunctive force, subservient to, augmenting and embellishing the chief feature of the theatre—the play. 1965 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 39 139/2 As an adjunctive measure, the patient was initially fitted with a supportive leotard. 1989 Appl. Linguistics 10 386 Adjunctive adjectives as a subclass express qualitative, quantitative, spatial, temporal, etc. characteristics. 2005 C. L. Bowden & V. Singh in T. A. Ketter Adv. Treatm. Bipolar Disorder iv. 122 The group receiving adjunctive psychoeducation experienced significantly fewer relapses into mania. B. n. = adjunct n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [noun] > by supplying what is wanting > one who or that which supplies what is wanted supplier1574 supplementer1644 suppletory1647 supplementor1697 makeweight1750 adjunctive1755 expletivea1878 add-on1930 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Adjunctive, 1. He that joins. 2. That which is joined. 1791 Monthly Rev. July 289 If to the appellation Catholic any discriminating adjunctive were necessary, I would call myself a British Catholic. 1849 J. B. Huntington tr. J. H. Chauvier Treat. on Punctuation 84 An adjunctive is one, or more vocatives relative to the same verb in a sentence, and also all interjections or interjective speeches. 1902 St. Thomas's Hosp. Rep. New Ser. 29 xvi. 421 It is fair to contrast it with all other remedies whose aims are either sedative, or if operative, are only used as adjunctives to the use of drugs. 1970 I. Michael Eng. Grammatical Categories ii. viii. 208 Kirkby himself describes the adjunctive as being ‘either an Adjective properly so called or a verb’. 1990 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 1 June A new book..explores a variety of natural therapies as adjunctives to medical treatments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1668 |
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