单词 | theoretics |
释义 | theoreticsn. That which is theoretical; the theoretical aspects of a subject. ΚΠ 1670 T. Gale tr. Ammonius in Court of Gentiles: Pt. II iv. i. 377 They distribute Theoreticks [Gk. θεωρητικὰ] into Physiologicks, Mathematicks, and Theologicks. 1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick ix. 71 I have detain'd the Reader long enough in Theoretics, I will now make bold to offer some Observations on the Practick. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Theoreticks, those things that belong to the Speculative part of Physick. 1860 H. B. Wilson in Ess. & Rev. 160 Morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. 1875 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 July 69/2 Neither empiricism nor theoretics is an infallible guide. 1912 Eng. Rev. June 413 The British workman will never take up the theoretics of orthodox Marxianism. 1955 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 49 481 We need not be concerned with the theoretics according to which the bourgeoisie is divided into a pro-imperialist and an anti-imperialist wing. 2009 J. Klinkowitz Kurt Vonnegut's Amer. i. 34 Bringing down abstractions and theoretics to a practical level. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1670 |
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