单词 | separative |
释义 | separativeadj.n. 1. a. Tending to separate or to cause separation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > tending to separate or cause separation discretivec1425 separative1592 1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers A 4 b A Leprosie is..a fearefull, lothsome, contagious and separative maladie. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith iii. 15 Grace is separative, and singleth out one of many. 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist i. 99 That..eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made..in Nova Zembla. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 364 We ought now..to inquire how it comes that every object hath this separative power over the particles of light; how it imbibes one colour, while it copiously reflects another? 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 154/2 The spirit of the synagogue is essentially separative. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 55 The uniting influence was stronger than the separative. 1893 J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 231 The fond, comfortable feeling..that we are better than others, is..separative alike from God and man. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > one who or that which separates > that which > that which causes separation separative1650 1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 88 It is such a separative, that it divorceth the pre-reputation of all thy actions. 2. Grammar. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > genitive > certain functions of separative1845 1845 W. E. Jelf Gram. Greek Lang. §530 II. 156 Separative Genitive... All verbs expressing any notion of removal, separation, departure, rising from, may have a genitive of the point whence these began. b. Of conjunctions: Alternative, disjunctive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > disjunctive discretive1542 segregative1588 discrete1628 disjunctive1628 disconnective1824 separative1888 1888 B. H. Kennedy Rev. Lat. Primer (1900) §177 Co-ordinative Conjunctions are Connective:..Separative. 3. Natural History. Of a mark or character: Affording ground for establishing a separate species or group. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [adjective] > separation or division specifical?a1475 separative1865 1865 Reader 23 Dec. 716 This learned and popular author stands out firmly and solidly for an insurmountable, unsurpassable, separative distinction between man and brute. Derivatives ˈseparatively adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adverb] > individually (not collectively) sunderlyeOE sundryOE sundrilyOE sunderlepesOE serelepesc1175 serelya1375 severinglya1390 sunderlingc1390 properlya1393 serea1400 severally1399 departinglya1425 diviselyc1449 severately1470 sunderwisea1550 separately1552 disjunctively1590 semovedly1593 distributively1597 particular1599 dividedly1607 dividually1631 separatively1789 1789 Trifler No. 41. 528 Individuals should separatively collect from observation and religion the art of life best calculated for their own real felicity. ˈseparativeness n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > quality or condition of being separate separateness1635 abstractedness1647 separation1650 asunderness1843 separativeness1901 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > other attributes ineffability1629 nunc stans1651 indemonstrability1847 separativeness1901 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > spiritual separation from the world detachment1798 separativeness1901 1901 G. Matheson in Expositor Aug. 107 To the mind of the Jew, the man who of all others emphasized the holiness of God, the distinctive feature of this holiness was its separativeness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1592 |
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