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thematic, a. (n.)|θɪˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. θεµατικ-ός, f. θέµα theme: see -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a theme or themes.
1. a. Of or pertaining to a subject or topic of discourse or writing.
1871tr. Lange's Comm. Jer. 104 These introductory verses thus acquire a thematic character. 1957N. Frye Anatomy of Criticism 367 Thematic; Relating to works of literature in which no characters are involved except the author and his audience, as in most lyrics and essays, or to works of literature in which internal characters are subordinated to an argument maintained by the author..opposed to fictional. 1974R. Quirk Linguist & Eng. Lang. iv. 75 There is formulaic and thematic structure..yielding striking if controversial theories about the composition of early English poetry. 1979N. & Q. Feb. 63/2 The orientation of this anthology is essentially thematic.
†b. Logic. Relating to or connected with the matter or subject of thought. Obs.
1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic i. i. 2 A System of Logical Precepts consists of two Parts, Thematick and Organic... The first is that which is imploy'd about Theams, and their various Affections, and second Notions, as about the Matter of the Instruments of Logick.
c. Psychol. Thematic Apperception Test: a projective test designed to reveal a person's actual social drives or needs by means of the theme common to the interpretations which he gives to each of a standard series of pictures.
1935Morgan & Murray in Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry XXXIV. 289 (title) Method for investigating fantasies. The Thematic Apperception Test. 1938H. A. Murray et al. Explorations in Personality vi. 531 As the subjects who took this test were asked to interpret each picture—that is, to apperceive the plot or dramatic structure exhibited by each picture—we named it the ‘Thematic Apperception Test’. 1957P. Lafitte Person in Psychol. 120 The Thematic Apperception Test is more abstract because of the deliberate vagueness of its pictures as well as the fantastic nature of some. 1981L. Kristal et al. ABC Psychol. 189 Two of the best known projective tests are the Thematic Apperception Test..and the Rorschach Inkblot Test.
d. Philately. Applied to the collecting of stamps with designs which relate to the same subject, or to such a collection.
1951R. J. Sutton Stamp Collector's Encycl. 231 Thematic Collecting: Collecting to a theme or subject. 1965E. H. Spire Adventures in Stamp Collecting ix. 111 It was..only a logical development from selected collecting that brought about the advent of Thematic Philately. Ibid., Collections of stamps depicting animals, flowers, ships, railways..and so on, are described as ‘thematic’. 1972Police Rev. 1 Dec. 1558 The American Topical Society has recorded more than one thousand subjects for thematic stamp collecting.
e. Linguistics. Of, pertaining to, or designating the theme of a sentence: see theme n. 1 d.
1959, etc. [see rhematic a. 2]. 1969K. H. Wagner Generative Grammatical Studies in Old Eng. Lang. i. 52 In interrogative clauses..the initial constituent must be regarded as rhematic rather than thematic. 1977J. Lyons Semantics II. xii. 506 John Smith I haven't seen for ages. Here the grammatical subject is ‘I’, but the thematic subject is ‘John Smith’.
2. Mus. Of, pertaining to, or constituting themes or subjects (see theme 4); relating to themes and their contrapuntal development. In thematic catalogue, thematic index, thematic summary, = containing the opening themes or passages of musical pieces.
1864Reader 21 May 660 A handy thematic summary of the work is given in the ‘Orchestra’ for last week. 1878C. F. Pohl in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 66/2 The thematic catalogue which Mozart himself had kept of his works. 1906Athenæum 1 Sept. 250/2 The thematic material has been carefully chosen, and its treatment shows thought and skill.
3. Gram. Of or pertaining to the theme or stem-form of a word: see theme 5. Hence, of verb-forms: having a connecting vowel between the verb-stem and the suffixes or inflections.
thematic vowel, a vowel which comes between the root and the inflexions in a verb or n., as the ε and ο in ϕέρ-ο-µεν, ϕέρ-ε-τε, the i, e, and a in OE. ber-i-þ, ber-e-þ, luf-a-ð.
1861Goldstücker Pánini 257 There must be reasons for this variety of thematic forms which constitute the declension of the same base. 1877T. L. Papillon Man. Comp. Philol. viii. (ed. 2) 167 Curtius..explains the vowel in question as a ‘thematic vowel’, i.e. a suffix to or increase of the stem or ‘theme’ previous to the reception of the inflections. 1887Cook Sievers' O.E. Gram. 143 The thematic w being sometimes retained and sometimes lost. 1888Kennedy Revised Lat. Primer §148 (1900) 94 Verbs... In which the Verb-Stem was formed by a so-called Thematic vowel added to the root. 1894[see athematic a. 1]. 1933Language IX. 82 The athematic verbs were primarily durative in aspect, while the thematic were momentary. 1933,1955[see non-thematic a. 1 a]. 1972Language XLVIII. 389 Except for certain ‘thematic verbs’, which are exceptional, the presence of a post-position is mutually implicative with the presence of an ind. obj. morpheme.
4. Of or pertaining to the division of the Byzantine Empire into ‘themes’ or provinces.
1911E. Foord Byzantine Empire xi. 203 The army—The thematic system and its development—Organization, arms, equipment, and tactics. 1933S. Runciman Byzantine Civilisation iv. 90 The thematic tax-gatherers took orders directly from the central government. 1980C. Mango Byzantium i. ii. 46 The accepted view is that the ‘thematic’ reform was accompanied by a general fragmentation of the large estates.
B. n.
1. That part of logic which deals with themes or subjects of thought.
1891in Cent. Dict.
2. Gram. A thematic verb-form.
1968Language XLIV. 717 The conventional view of the distribution of athematics and thematics seems to be that both types existed even in quite early Proto-Indo-European.
3. Philately. A collection of stamps with designs which relate to the same subject.
1972Police Rev. 1 Dec. 1572/3 It was known as United Kingdom Thematics 1972, open to thematic entries from anywhere. 1979West Lancs. Even. Gaz. 6 Apr. 18 (Advt.), Stamp collectors world-wide approvals and thematics.
4. pl. const. as sing. A body of subjects or topics of discussion or study.
1975Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 125 Conklin's unique credentials..allow him to be catholic in his approach, both in terms of thematics and in his world-wide coverage. 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits v. 149 The thematics of this science is henceforth suspended, in effect at the primordial position of the signifier and the signified. 1980Encounter May 34/2 Even if Dr Henry Kissinger's picture of a world of ‘multi-polarity’ is more a neo-Bismarckian fiction than a reality, the confrontation of two Super-powers describes neither the thematics nor the structure of world politics today.
So theˈmatical a. = thematic; theˈmatically adv., in a thematic manner; with respect to a theme or themes; † ˈthematism Obs. nonce-wd. [ad. Gr. θεµατισµός a laying down], a placing, arrangement; ˈthematist, one who composes or writes themes (Ogilvie, 1882).
1890Athenæum 3 May 579/1 The *thematical material in the four movements of the work is..interesting, and..the music is pleasantly unconventional.
Ibid. 25 Jan. 125/2 Structurally as well as *thematically we note a welcome advance towards clearness.
1729G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 334 The first then shall be the *Thematism (from the Greek Word θεµατισµός) which signifies the Decorum and Gracefulness of any Pile. |