| 单词 | self-substantial | 
| 释义 | self-substantialadj.ΚΠ 1609    W. Shakespeare Sonnets i. sig. B  				Thou..Feed'st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell.  2.  Originally: having existence by virtue of intrinsic nature, independently of any other cause; self-existent. In later use also: existing independently of external factors or relations; self-contained; self-sustaining. 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 1630    tr.  S. Jerome Certaine Sel. Epist. 22  				I beseech your Holynesse..by the selfe-substantiall Trinity [L. per homousiam trinitatem]. 1830    tr.  Dionysius of Alexandria in  Trial of Unitarians 103  				One only Virgin, the daughter of life, brought forth the living and self-substantial Word [Gk. τὸν ζῶντα Λόγον καὶ ἐνυπόστατον], the uncreated Creator. 1847    A. Tulk tr.  L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 321  				The act of ingestion is the act that tends unto the self-substantial, independent life. 1926    R. M. MacIver Mod. State  iv. xiv. 451  				It [sc. the state] is no self-substantial entity whose end is its own fulfilment, existing in its own right and for its own welfare. 1981    E. Gans Origin Lang. i. 1  				One wonders how such problems could arise at all were ‘representation’ indeed a self-substantial category. 2004    Mod. Philol. 102 167  				A number of works might be perceived as something short of entities in their own right... Just as The Siege never occurs as a self-substantial work, one might consider textual nodes, clumps of items known largely or exclusively in a common circulation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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