α. 1500s– adminicle.
β. 1700s adminicule.
单词 | adminicle |
释义 | adminiclen.α. 1500s– adminicle. β. 1700s adminicule. 1. Something which provides help or assistance, esp. in a subordinate or supporting capacity; an aid, an accessory; an adjunct. Frequently with to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help redeeOE helpc893 bootOE friendOE lithc1275 helpera1300 a helping handa1300 helpingc1330 bieldc1352 succour?a1366 supplementc1384 easementa1398 succourer1442 aid?1473 assister1535 assistant?1541 adminicle1551 mystery1581 second1590 auxiliatory1599 subsidium1640 suffragan1644 facilitation1648 adminiculary1652 auxiliary1656 auxiliar1670 ally1794 Boy Scout1918 assist1954 facilitator1987 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth 14 The auctor would haue the Sacramentes..to be adminicles (as it were). 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxxv. 469 They adioine fasting and sackloth..as adminicles..to that effectual praier of theirs. 1646 G. Gillespie Aarons Rod Blossoming ii. viii. 263 To take care of the maintenance of the Ministery, Schooles, poor, and of good works for necessary uses, that Religion and Learning may not want their necessary adminicles. 1691 A. Brown Vindicatory Schedule ix. 136 The benefit that in most chronick Diseases comes by long riding seems to be no small adminicle. 1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §2. 74 The invention contained in these verses is..so great an adminicle to the dexterous management of syllogisms. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. x. 99 The senate of five hundred..was a permanent adjunct and adminicle of the public assembly. 1872 Daily News 2 Oct. 5 Floriculture and other adminicles of civilisation. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 21 234 To Dr. Osgood Classical Mythology is an adminicle to the study of Milton, and not a study in itself. 1922 J. Buchan Hist. Great War III. lxxix. 512 To the main structure were added many adminicles; and, as frequently happens, machinery devices came to be regarded as in themselves essential principles. 1996 J. D. Smele Civil War in Siberia iii. 295 The final declaration..went yet further; an adminicle to the Kadets' commitment to active Russification of minority regions, it read: [etc.]. 2. A piece of supporting or corroborative evidence; something which, without forming complete proof in itself, helps to prove a point; (esp. in Scots Law) a document tending to prove the existence and tenor of a lost deed, which if it existed would have been full evidence. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > other types of evidence direct evidence1591 adminicle1592 extrinsic evidence1660 evidence-in-chief1747 hearsay evidence1753 secondary use1765 secondary evidence1810 rebuttable presumption1837 1592 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 569/2 That the tryall..sall nocht be ressauit without verie greit adminicles. 1600 in W. Fraser Mem. Earls of Haddington (1889) II. 208 The..breifs fund vpon him, and vther adminicles. 1663 in J. Gilmour & D. Falconer Coll. Decis. Lords of Council (1701) i. 49 The seasine was given by father to the son only propriis manibus, without an adminicle, though confirmed by the Marques. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Adminicle..In Civil-Law, it signifies imperfect Proof. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iv. i. 433 Regularly, no deed can be revived by this action, without some adminicle in writing. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 250 Only as adminicles of testimony, tending to corroborate what is considered as legal and proper evidence. 1870 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. 11 490 I will give what in the Scotch Law are called..adminicles of evidence,..that tend to establish Mr. Foster's age, apart from his family records. 1910 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 10 258 I can perhaps supply one adminicle of corroborative evidence of its genuineness. 1965 Jrnl. Forensic Sci. Soc. 5 147 An accused under arrest may in Scotland be..stripped, searched and probed for marks, blood stains, and other adminicles of evidence. 2000 P. R. Ferguson in M. Childs & L. Ellison Feminist Perspectives on Evid. viii. 164 An adminicle of evidence need not be unequivocally in support of the prosecution case to amount to corroboration. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin > device stamped on > specific crossc1330 crouch1393 about-writingc1449 half-facea1549 legend1611 mill-rind1642 graining1664 adminicles1728 tressure1745 short-cross1870 long cross1904 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Adminicle Among Antiquaries, the term Adminicules is applied to the Attributes, or Ornaments wherewith Juno is represented on Medals. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 46/2 Adminicles, among antiquarians, denote the attributes or ornaments wherewith Juno is represented on medals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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