单词 | volition |
释义 | volitionn. 1. a. With a and plural. An act of willing or resolving; a decision or choice made after due consideration or deliberation; a resolution or determination. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > [noun] > (a) resolution or decision resolutiona1475 decreetc1475 decision1490 shall?1553 deliberation1579 resolve1592 pitch1600 volition1615 1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith 35 That such acts againe as they appropriate to the will, and call volitions, are essentially and formally intellections, is most euident. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xvii. 180 They are onely Velleities and not Volitions: halfe and broken wishes, not whole desires. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 851 They supposing Humane Volitions..to be Mechanically Caused and Necessitated, from those Effluvious Images of Bodies, coming in upon the Willers. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 314 We may have vehement Willings, Longings, Volitions and Velleities. 1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity i. 6 A determination to suspend a volition is, in fact, another volition. 1782 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit (ed. 2) I. p. v Every human volition is subject to certain fixed laws. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 9 When the animal has received a sensation, and this sensation determines a volition in it, it is by the nerves that the volition is transmitted to the muscles. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1190 in Poems I Grant me such pardoning grace as can go forth From clean volitions toward a spotted will. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 300 No one can tell how a mere volition moves the arm. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 310 Unless some new volition of a power capable of controlling the universe should supervene. b. Used with reference to the will of God. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > will of willeOE the voice of God (also heaven, Christ, etc.)c1350 volition1654 complacence1675 1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 145 Gods gracious volitions towards them. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. ii. 27 I doubt all sides are over temerarious in their distribution of Gods Decrees and Volitions. 1700 C. Nesse Antidote against Arminianism 18 We..make..the Volitions of God to come behind the Created and Temporary Volitions of Man. 2. a. The action of consciously willing or resolving; the making of a definite choice or decision with regard to a course of action; exercise of the will.Very common from c1830. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > [noun] > exercise of the will willOE willing1340 volition1660 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iv. i. Rule 3 §8 The external act does superadd new obligations beyond those which are consequent to the mere internal volition, though never so perfect and complete. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 58 The Acts of this Faculty are generally divided into Volition, Nolition, and Suspension. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi. 117 This Power the Mind has to prefer the Consideration of any Idea;..the actual preferring one to another, is that we call Volition, or Willing. 1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 46 By the Motion of my Hand, which was consequent upon my Volition. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 166. ⁋12 That when we find worth faintly shooting in the shades of obscurity, we may let in light and sunshine upon it, and ripen barren volition into efficacy and power. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. iv. 71 I shifted my situation with a speed that seemed too swift for volition. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 157 In this answer the citizen saw something not quite consistent with his own perfect freedom of volition. 1843 W. E. Gladstone in Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. Oct. 560 Do not let us suppose that..we are contemplating an affair of mere individual volition. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 37 Human volition is the result of so many obscure and complicated causes, as to appear at first sight mere caprice and chance. b. The power or faculty of willing. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > [noun] hearteOE willOE wilhede1340 volition1738 voluntary faculty1867 the mind > will > free will > [noun] freedomeOE free will1340 arbitryc1374 advisementa1398 freedom of will?c1400 liberty?c1400 wilfulnessc1460 liberal arbitre?1483 contingencec1530 indifferencya1555 contingency1561 freedom of thought1591 self-willingness1591 volunt1611 voluntariness1643 uncommandedness1646 autexousy1678 volency1686 inconditionality1696 unconditionalitya1714 indifference1728 volition1738 vacancy1754 voluntarity1794 autonomy1803 unconditionalness1843 unconditionedness1854 1738 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 The Traveller, as he hath Volition, may will to go to the Right or the Left before he comes to the Guide-Post. 1764 S. Foote Patron ii. 42 To this cabinet volition, or will, has a key. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. viii. 412 The individuality of a mind..or its volition, that is, its power of originating motion. 1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Gengulphus in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 247 For Saints, e'en when dead, still retain their volition. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 46 That sort of angel-beings supposed to have a volition of their own. 1895 G. MacDonald Lilith xx Despair restored my volition,..I ran and overtook her. c. Will-power. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > [noun] > will-power willpower1842 volition1844 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. ii. 18 The four votes..had been increased by his intense volition and unsparing means to ten. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. ii. 26 Montacute.., acted upon by a stronger volition than his own. Derivatives voˈlitionless adj. lacking volition. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > [adjective] > having no will will-less1651 volitionless1881 1881 J. Owen Evenings with Skeptics II. x. 415 The volitionless will of the former [sc. Schopenhauer] is an instinct with purpose..as the most personal conception of Deity ever evolved from the brain of a theologian. 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