单词 | adject |
释义 | adjectadj.n. Adjacent; adjoining. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > adjacent joiningc1385 joinantc1405 adjacentc1425 adjoinant1429 adject?a1475 adjoined?1556 adjoining1577 conjoining1579 bystanding1622 annexed1634 verging1796 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 195 (MED) That londe and see adiecte [L. adjacens] to hit. B. n. 1. Grammar. An adjective or adjectival unit.Later chiefly as a graphic abbreviation of adjective n.; cf. adj. n.1contradiction in the adject: see contradiction n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adjective > [noun] noun adjectivea1398 adjectivec1400 adject1584 nounc1620 adj.1656 adnoun1657 adname1710 A1735 attributive1860 adjectival1866 commonization1973 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Silie Ape (an adiect improper to an Ape, if not inuironed of Bees). 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. viii. 100 The Substant. and Adiect. to goe together; vnlesse the Adiect. passe his signification into some other word. 1625 R. Broughton 2nd Pt. Protestants Plea iv. 59 The particle la, is an adiect to Harom. 1661 S. Stone Deceivers Deceiv'd 34 The adject Spiritual, connoting its subject Eating, is as much as Spiritual eating. 1790 W. Pryce Cornish-Eng. Vocab. in Archæologia Cornu-Britannica En, or yn, (particle) before an adjective adverb, serves to express the English adject. adverbs ending in ly. 1853 R. Hiley Eng. Gram. & Style (rev. ed.) ii. 66 Beheld (beholden as an adject.) 1894 W. W. Valentine New High German II. xviii. 280 The Gothic language allows the adject. to follow the subst. as well as to precede it. 1917 O. Heller in tr. T. Storm In St. Jürgen 65 Before pronominal adject, the uninfl. form all is common. 1996 H. H. Hock & B. D. Joseph Lang. Hist., Lang. Change, & Lang. Relationship v. 170 In American Sign Language the sign for ‘patient’ (adject.) used to be formed with the head nodding down and an index finger drawn against the lips. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > additional or separate part penthousea1400 wing1523 member1601 annexation1611 additionc1638 adject1784 annexe1829 extension1852 out-quarter1888 1784 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 674/2 To this last part of my plan I propose to dedicate a room in our museum, fitted with a separate repository..from whence future proprietors of the soil may be able to draw every information that can tend to their profit... I am proud of this adject. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). adjectv. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > annex annex1449 adject?a1475 to eat up1616 to take in1893 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 89 (MED) The foreseide Arsaces adiecte [L. adjecit; a1387 Trevisa ioyned] to his empyre the realme of Hircanes. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 75 Sum Bisshop of Winchester renewid the old Fundation adjecting more Lande. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 22 Remevid from Cairmardinshire and adject to Penbrookeshire. 2. transitive. Chiefly Scots Law. To add or append (a statement, condition, etc.). Also with clause or direct speech as object. ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 279 (MED) When Criste seide to Petyr, ‘I schalle ȝiffe to the keyes of the realme of hevyn,’ he myȝhte have adiecte [L. adjecisse] also..‘I grawnte þe same powere to thy successors.’ a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. C.jv Bladis that burned Yorke, was too impetuous, But the iudgement of a traytor to him was adiect. 1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 174 Quhilk claus is adjectit to mak the mair cleir probatioun presumptive. 1563 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Christian Congregation St. Andrews (1889) I. 181 Wythowtyn ony condicione adjecked tharto. 1621 D. Lindsay True Narration Proc. Gen. Assembly Church Scotl. 114 Where ye adiect that account must be made one day of such contumelies and reproches, I would but aske you [etc.]. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 66 They made the Childs name, by adjecting the syllable Son to the Appellation of the Father. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 107 They adjected this Condition. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xi. 223 Some circumstance..which is left lagging behind, like a tail adjected to the Sentence. a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr. (1869) II. lvii. 935 Many remarks touching solemnities adjected to alienations apply, mutatis mutandis, to solemnities adjected to other titles. 1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm II. xii. 114 ‘What am I sayin'!’ adjected Miss Horn. 1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Prooimion 23 ‘Poor child—poor child,’ the cardinal adjected. 1994 Jrnl. Planning & Environm. Law 33 The power to adject conditions to the grant of planning permission was contained in section 29(1) of the Act of 1971. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.?a1475v.?a1475 |
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