单词 | sententious |
释义 | sententiousadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adjective] keena1000 nimbleOE wittya1100 smeighc1200 understandingc1200 aperta1330 skillwisea1340 witted1377 intelligiblea1382 well-feelinga1382 knowinga1398 finec1400 large?a1425 well-knowingc1425 of understanding1428 capax1432 sententiousc1440 well-wittedc1450 intellectual?a1475 clean1485 industriousc1487 intellective1509 cleanlyc1540 ingenious?a1560 fine-headed1574 conceited1579 conceitful1594 intelligenced1596 dexter1597 ingenuous1598 intelligent1598 senseful1598 parted1600 thinking1605 dexterical1607 solert1612 apprehensivea1616 dexterous1622 solertic1623 intelligential1646 callent1656 cunning1671 thoughtful1674 perceptive1696 clever1716 uptaking1756 spiritual1807 bright1815 gnostic1819 knowledgeable1825 brainy1845 opulent1851 opening1872 super-cerebral1916 brainiac1976 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [adjective] sententiousc1440 pregnant?a1475 significant1566 senseful1596 mattery1602 significative1639 expressive1690 meaning1726 voluminous1804 meaningful1852 eloquent1870 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 453/1 Sentencyowse, or full of sentence, sentenciosus. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.iiiv O vertuous Lydgat moche sentencyous. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xiv. 53 The boke of fame, whiche is sentencyous He [Chaucer] drewe hym selfe. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vi. Prol. 75 He is ane hie theolog sentencius. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 83 Gloss. This is a notable and sententious comparison. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 3 Your reasons at Dinner haue been sharpe & sententious . View more context for this quotation 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman vi. 43 Let your stile..bee..sententious, yea better furnished with sentences then words. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 32 Teares have Tongues..Sententious showers, ô let them fall. 2. Of the nature of a ‘sentence’ or aphoristic saying. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective] sententiala1475 sententious1542 topic1581 apophthegmatical?1589 topical1594 adagial1647 aphoristical1661 gnomonic1706 axiomatical1738 gnomologic1751 aphoristic1753 maximical1779 apophthegmatic1796 aphorismic1798 gnomic1815 aphorismatic1822 axiomatic1835 maximic1854 aphorismical1880 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (title) Apophthegmes that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges, of certain Emperours [etc.]. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 261 Brief sententious precepts. View more context for this quotation 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 205. ⁋1 Sometimes [he] uttered grave reflections, and sententious maxims. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 285 The depth of sentiment was contracted into sententious epigrams. 1908 Q. Rev. Apr. 341 Many sententious and quasi-proverbial lines are ascribed to him [Menander]. 3. Of discourse, style, etc.: Abounding in pointed maxims, aphoristic. In recent use sometimes in bad sense, affectedly or pompously formal. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective] > abounding in sententious1509 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) viii. 29 To make of nought, reason sentencious, Clokynge a trouthe wyth colour tenebrous. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 377 His grace..in speakinge..was pleasaunt, and yet graue:..sententious, and yet familiar. 1623 T. Gataker Wife in Deed 1 in Good Wife Gods Gift It hath this preeminence aboue most, if not all, the Bookes in the Bible; that many of them are Sententious, this consisteth all of Sentences. For what are Diuine Prouerbs, but select and choise Sentences. 1681 T. Dineley Jrnl. Tour Ireland in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. 2nd Ser. 2 22 [The Irish language] is sharp and sententious, with quick apothegmes, and proper allusions. 1747 P. Doddridge Some Remarkable Passages Life Col. J. Gardiner 175 [He] only replied, in his Sententious Manner, ‘We have an Eternity to spend together’. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Brutus in Plutarch Lives ⁋4 In Greek he affected the sententious and laconic way [of speaking]. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. i. 224 The truth of this speech palliating it's sententious absurdity, made Cecilia give up her faint attempt to soften him. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 187 Their wit [was] strong and sententious. 1833 T. B. Macaulay War Succession in Spain in Ess. ⁋3 Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and oracular. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxix. 192 His ordinary discourse was grave and sententious. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 42 A long sententious letter, full of Latin quotations. 1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 86 The sententious remarks of a pompous child. 1883 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 260 A person of gentlemanly bearing, small abilities, and sententious wisdom. 4. Of persons: Given to the utterance of maxims or pointed sayings. Now often in bad sense, addicted to pompous moralizing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [adjective] > given to uttering gnomical1604 sententious1609 aphorisming1641 1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd i. sig. C2 Come you are so sententious my Lord. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 62 By my faith, he is very swift, and sententious . View more context for this quotation 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 9 This indifferencie towards Fortune, is excellently described by the sententious Seneca. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World ii. i. 29 Sententious Mirabell! Prithee don't look with that violent and inflexible wise Face. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. vii. 86 Sallust was a sententious Pedant. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. v. 114 You grow so horrid sententious. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. xiv The Marquis de Hautlieu..was as short and sententious as French politeness permitted. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xxxvi He was a sententious person. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a sentence > expressive of a whole sentence sententious1586 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 149 The matter whereof these armes do consist is the same that the auncient Hieroglyphiques weare with the Ægiptians, or the sententious Emblemes to the Greekes. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. vi. §82 The making of those Figures being tedious..put Men first upon contracting them..instead of Sententious Marks, to think of Verbal; such as the Chineses still retain. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a sentence > consisting of detached sentences sententious1770 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 250 The first word of a new paragraph..is commonly put in Small Capitals... But this rule may be very well laid aside in matter which is too sententious and which would take up more Small Capitals than an ordinary..Fount could supply. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 386 Others are so sententious in their writing that they break off almost at every place that will admit of a Full-point. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1440 |
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