单词 | self-moving |
释义 | self-movingn.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > automatic > automaton or robot self-mover1570 self-moving1570 automa1631 automatea1649 android1728 golem1732 automaton1922 robot1927 mechanoid1947 robotic1951 droid1952 bot1969 mecha1986 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. A.jv Of the straunge Selfmouyng, which, at Saint Denys, by Paris, I saw, ones or twise..it were to straunge to tell. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vii. 100 Things..which men as thou art doe deeme to be without end, as straunge Milles and Trindles, and such other kind of selfmouings [Fr. Automates]. 2. Motion produced by the inherent power of the person, object, etc., that moves, rather than by the action of external forces. Also in philosophical contexts: voluntary or spontaneous action; will; an instance of this. Cf. self-motion n., self-movement n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [noun] > self-movement self-moving1570 self-motion1584 autokinesy1678 self-movement1700 spontaneity1721 1570 A. Golding in tr. D. Chytræus Postil 158 Every thing that moueth it selfe, is euer moued, and is euerlasting: The soule of man moueth it selfe. [margin] Selfmouing. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xiv. 80/2 Their sinnes come of nothing else than their owne selfe mouing [Fr. leur propre mouuement]. 1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. 60 Animarie [Numbers], whose Property is a Power of Self-moving. 1700 C. B. Disc. Divine Myst. ii. x. 225 There is likewise a certain kind of Acts, of Seeing, of Hearing,..of Self-moving, or of Sensibility in the Body, in which the Soul hath not any part. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 9 Nor..is this denied by those who ascribe the greatest power of self-moving to the mind. 1880 C. Massey tr. J. C. F. Zöllner Transcendental Physics viii. 140 All the usual mediumistic phenomena, such as the self-moving of objects, lights, appearance of hands, &c. 1980 R. Burger Plato's Phaedrus iv. 52 Socrates began with the attempt to prove that soul is immortal on the basis of proving that the self-moving is immortal. 2010 Philos. East & West 60 220 The self-moving of the animate object (i.e., humans and other animals) involves the impelling forces of desire and imagination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). self-movingadj. That moves or is capable of moving by inherent power or energy rather than by the action of external forces; that moves automatically. Also in philosophical contexts: capable of voluntary or spontaneous action. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [adjective] > self-moving automatic1599 self-moving1600 autokinetical1642 self-movable1642 spontaneous1659 self-motive1671 self-movent1701 autokinetic1841 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 195 The single incompoundnesse of that self-moving soule..in comparison of the flesh. 1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. iv. 169 Supposing the whole Universe..to be but a great Automaton, or self-moving Engine. 1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (ed. 2) i. iii. 115 Allowing Matter to be self-existent and self-moving. 1779 Church of Eng. Vindic. App. 18 Ideas of..good and bad, right and wrong.., must exist as rules of action in the mind of every self-moving, self-directing, and self-governing rational. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 236 A self-moving valve. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 341 The self-moving leaves of Hedysarum gyrans. 1947 Philosophy 22 113 Soul is prior to body, and is the only real cause, inasmuch as the primary source of motion must lie in that which is self-moving, i.e. whose motion is internal or spontaneous. 2003 Tractor & Machinery Oct. (Farm & Hort. Equipm. Suppl.) 2/2 (advt.) Innovations including the self-sharpening ploughshare, [and] the first self-moving agricultural machine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570adj.1600 |
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