单词 | unrectified |
释义 | unrectifiedadj. 1. Not corrected.In quot. 1980: not adjusted for errors of perspective (cf. rectified adj. 6). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] > not corrected unamended1382 uncorrecteda1387 unrectifieda1602 incorrected1646 a1602 W. Perkins Godlie & Learned Expos. Epist. Iude (1606) 98 (margin) Vnrectified affections ouercast rectified iudgement and vnderstanding. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 306 Many things were left unrectified, which..they did not see. 1686 G. Jeffreys in T. B. Howell State Trials (1811) XI. 591/2 That one mistake in point of law might not go unrectified. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne in tr. Plutarch Lives I. Pref. sig. A5 The text was in a depraved state; unsettled and unrectified; abounding with errors, misnomers, and transpositions. 1837 W. Wordsworth Memorials Tour in Italy in Poems (1845) 273/2 Diligence uninspired, Unrectified, unguided..By godlike insight. 1895 W. H. Hudson Introd. Philos. H. Spencer 171 The unrectified egotistic emotions of the dweller in cave and wilderness. 1937 Rotarian May 9/1 It is obvious that the situation is very grave. If it is unrectified, a war may develop which would reduce the entire world to chaos. 1980 Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper No. 1156. Pref. p. vii/2 The 1944–45 data were derived from unrectified aerial photographs. Without planimetric control, measurements made from these photographs contain inherent geometric inaccuracies. 2002 C. Card Atrocity Paradigm 169 These emotional residues acknowledge an unexpiated wrong, an unrectified shortcoming, or an unpaid debt. 2. Not purified or refined (cf. rectified adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to refining or exaltation > not refined unrectified1662 1662 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry I. 124 The Butter or gross Oyl, which you kept unrectified, cures the chaps of the lips caused by cold. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Purging Unrectified oil of amber. 1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 267 Drops of unrectified spirit distill'd From the limbeck of Pride and Vanity. 1922 Beverage Jrnl. Sept. 49/2 Red and white oil of thyme are commercial varieties, the red oil being unrectified. 2009 R. S. Jackson Wine Tasting (ed. 2) iii. 101 The production of the largely unrectified wine spirits used to fortify port. 3. Of an alternating current: not converted to direct current (cf. rectify v. 12a). ΚΠ 1890 Electr. Engineer 10 Sept. 276/1 These reversals may readily be produced by using an alternating dynamo as a source and by sending its currents unrectified through the primary helix. 1965 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 June 1514/2 The high-tension power supplies for the oscillator may be unrectified alternating current, unsmoothed unidirectional current, or direct current. 2003 B. Hollembeak Automotive Electr. & Electronics (ed. 3) ii. 31 The unrectified current produced within a generator is the most common example of alternating current found in the automobile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1602 |
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