单词 | vocable |
释义 | vocablen. 1. Originally: that which a person or thing is called; a designation, a name. Later more generally: an item of vocabulary, a lexical item, a word (in recent use sometimes spec. with reference to form rather than meaning). Chiefly somewhat literary in later use.By the later 18th cent. the word was sometimes regarded as a distinctively Scottish usage (see quot. 1787). However it had never fallen entirely out of general use, and appears to have fully re-entered general circulation by the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] nameeOE wordeOE clepinga1300 namingc1300 neveningc1300 titlec1390 notea1393 stylec1400 calling?a1425 nomination?a1425 vocable1440 appellation1447 denomination?a1475 vocation1477 preface1582 prenomination1599 nomenclature1610 expressiona1631 denotation1631 appellative1632 compellation1637 denominate1638 nomenclation1638 nominance1642 titularity1643 entitlement1823 compellative1830 cognomen1852 tally1929 denotative1944 anthroponym1952 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] wordOE diction1416 vocable1440 phrase1552 accent?1553 whid1567 vowel1578 mot1591 accenty1600 quatcha1635 verba1716 verbalism1787 word1825 word1843 dicky1893 vocabulary item1916 monolog1929 dicky bird1932 word-type1936 lexical item1964 lexon1964 1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 2915 Sclaues and Saxones are þei called be name; The on of hem is named ful of scharpnesse, The othir hath a vocable of heuy fame. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. p. xxii The great nombre of theyr vocables be evidently deryved forth of latin. a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 43, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Vocabill It wes determyt at..Britane suld be callit Hengistis land... That wocabill held it lang bot it is now..called Ynglis land. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 9 This sillable, εὐ, in composicion of greke vocables betokeneth a certain facilitee. a1623 Sir G. Buck Hist. Richard III (1979) (modernized text) v. 196 I will say some things in the interpretation and declamation of a vocable or term of scandal cast upon him. 1664 M. Mackaile Moffet-well sig. A4 Those mysteries of Art and Nature, which we had wrapped up (as they conceived) in an inexplicable Idiom of a forraign Language (because of the deficiency of Dictionaries, as to the vocables of Art). 1700–11 in Extracts Council Reg. Burgh Aberdeen (1872) 328 They are to have the first four sectiones of Wederburns vocables, not only by heart, but to decline and conjugat the same. 1759 E. Aram Ess. towards Lexicon in Genuine Acct. Life & Trial E. Aram 56 Hence that almost identity of languages is sometimes found in places at a great distance from each other, and hence that agreement in many vocables between the Greek, and the Cambrian, and Irish Celtic. 1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 99 A vocable, a word, or term. The boy has lost his vocables. 1807 J. Boucher Suppl. Johnson's Dict. at Ay The simple annals, or history, of this vocable in our own language..would probably be not less curious than its general history is. 1852 J. S. Blackie On Stud. Lang. 30 If you love the book..you will master the vocables it contains in a speedy and agreeable way. 1905 Amer. Anthropologist 7 283 There is a fossil word pāt, whose proper meaning is uncertain, the word occurring only in the vocable junpāt. 1939 M. Lowry Let. 30 July in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 200 I wish I could put all the words of tenderness & love in the world into this letter. But the one simple vocable ‘love’ does as well. 1982 A. Burgess End of World News 117 ‘No. No. No.’ That vocable was now being uttered very sharply by Vanessa Brodie. 2015 Jrnl. Mod. Lit. 38 83 He loses ‘the thread’.., deflating any sense of grandeur previously achieved by the pile-up of pessimistic vocables. 2. A syllable or sound without lexical or referential meaning, vocalized as part of a song or sung melody. ΚΠ 1880 Celtic Mag. Oct. 484 Such vocables as hi, tri ti, represented the high notes, and ho, hu, the lowest. 1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 7 186 Meaningless vocables may appear in any part of a Navajo song. 1942 New Yorker 28 Nov. 13/1 Unlike some scat singers, Kay has no preferred vocables. ‘It just comes to me,’ he says. ‘Va-ja-va-ja-ja, or mo-mi-o-mimi-matta-ta, or bogle-o-doo.’ 1977 Ethnomusicology 21 394 Eye-ye is another popular onomatopoetic vocable used to imply wailing and weeping. 2014 D. P. McAllester in B. Swann Sky Loom 247 The syllables in italics are vocables, untranslatable text, like the English ‘hey nonny-no’ or ‘fa-la-la’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). vocableadj. rare. ΚΠ 1796 R. Cotton Generation Light 130 Neither of them [sc. the Devil and the Serpent]..have been able to seduce or beguile mankind, vocable or visible. 2. Capable of being uttered or spoken. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > utterance of vocal sound > utterable pronounceablec1570 slipper1589 pronunciable1649 enunciable1652 effable1668 vocable1861 deliverable1889 1861 Brit. Q. Rev. Jan. 164 In Dr. Morrison's Syllabic Dictionary [of Chinese] there are 12,674 characters, and but 411 monosyllabic sounds to express them; which gives a general average of 30 characters to one vocable sound. 1891 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 29 8 If we now try to substitute in Hebrew, as ordinarily written, the above values for the letters, we shall find we have a perfectly vocable language. 1901 G. Meredith With the Persuader in Poems 174 Cunninger than the numbered strings,..For mastered discords and the things Not vocable, whose mysteries Are inmost Love's. 1935 J. H. Griffiths Psychol. Human Behav. (1936) xiii. 408 The faintest vocable sound has a power value of .01 microwatt, that of the loudest, 5000 microwatts. 2008 A. D. Patel Music, Lang., & Brain ii. 62 In Solfège there is no systematic mapping between vocable sounds and the musical sounds they represent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1440adj.1796 |
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