单词 | self-subsisting |
释义 | self-subsistingadj. Existing independently of any other being or cause; (in later use also) having means of subsistence without need of external assistance; = self-subsistent adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > self-existent self-being1599 self-subsisting1608 self-essential1610 self-substantial1630 self-subsistent1646 self-existing1647 self-essentiated1653 self-existent1663 self-living1668 self-standing1871 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > self-sufficient suffisanta1340 sufficient for (to) oneself1382 substantive1543 self-suffisant1589 self-sufficient1596 self-sustaining1598 self-contained1605 self-subsisting1608 self-supporting1632 self-dependent1642 self-full1642 self-subsistent1646 self-sufficing1647 self-relying1648 self-depending1669 independent1670 self-sustained1675 unbenefitable1688 self-sufficed1709 self-supported1736 self-containing1826 self-reliant1834 autarkic1883 1608 T. Milles Custumers Alphabet & Primer sig. I.2v Who can be capable of so great a glory, by personall Right, but selfe-subsisting Maiestie? a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. iv. 321 Their Souls are not of a self-subsisting nature, they cannot exist out of them. 1700 H. Layton Search after Souls i. 13 A Perfect, Substantial, Immortal, and Self subsisting Spirit. 1794 A. E. Booth tr. B. Naubert Alf von Deulmen I. 255 There is nothing malice will not attempt; always deliberating to invent cause for censure on self-subsisting perfection. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. i. ii. 61 Those [sc. Platonic] ideas were described as eternal and self-subsisting. 1883 London Q. Rev. Jan. 339 The physical universe is not a self-subsisting, self-ordering universe. 1945 S. Carolina Hist. & Geneal. Mag. 46 168 A twenty-five acre lot..which served them as a self-subsisting farm. 2005 M. I. Wallace Finding God in Singing River 129 The classical understanding of God as an independent, self-subsisting being. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1608 |
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