单词 | substantival |
释义 | substantivaladj. 1. Grammar. Of, relating to, or consisting of, a substantive or substantives. Cf. nounal adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [adjective] substantivea1398 substantivatec1400 nominalc1450 substantival1796 nounal1871 nouny1926 1796 S. Dickson Ess. Chem. Nomencl. v. 233 Whether the original signification of lix was substantival..we seem to have no guide to determine us but probability. a1832 J. Bentham Lang. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 326/2 The substantival name of a quality presents the idea, in the character of a complete idea. 1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 425 Nine-tenths of the New England Algonkin proper names..were composed of an adjectival and a substantival element. 1939 T. B. L. Webster in Stud. in Fr. Lang. & Med. Lit. 382 An apposition is a phrase—substantival or participial or a sentence in parenthesis. 1957 S. Potter Mod. Ling. iv. 91 Bookcase consists of substantival attribute + substantive. 2008 C. R. Campbell Verbal Aspect & Non-indicative Verbs i. 37 The critical question regarding adjectival and substantival participles is the degree to which aspect retains its potency. 2. That exists substantially. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective] substantiala1425 subsistent1597 subsisting1597 substant1618 subsistential1620 substanding1662 substantive1787 substantival1884 1884 Mind 9 128 The real is individual, self-existent, substantival. 1917 E. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God in Light of Recent Philos. 282 Every real individual must possess a substantival existence in the Aristotelian sense. 1976 R. H. Gundry Soma in Biblical Theol. xiv. 200 Since the soul is not substantival, all talk of separation of soul and body is meaningless. 2001 Times Lit. Supp. 13 Apr. 11 The ‘I’ does not refer to a substantival self. Derivatives substanˈtivally adv. Grammar as a substantive or noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [adverb] substantivelya1500 nominallya1665 substantivally1844 nounally1871 1844 B. H. Kennedy Latinæ Grammaticæ Curriculum 71 The Subordinate Sentence may be regarded Substantivally..or Adverbially. 1892 J. Earle & C. Plummer in Anglo-Saxon Chron. Gloss. 373/2 Neuter used substantivally. 1917 Scand. Stud. 4 35 Den, det, dei, are used both substantivally and adjectivally. 2003 Classical Q. New Ser. 53 536 Used substantivally in the plural it has turned up three times in the same area of Egypt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1796 |
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