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processual, a.|prəʊˈsɛsjuːəl|
[ad. L. type *prōcessuāl-is, f. prōcessu-s (u-stem) process n.: see -al1.]
a. Roman Law. Pertaining to a legal process.
1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 401 The principal function of the Adstipulator..seems to have been processual agency. 1880Muirhead Gaius iii. §180 note, These two pars. deal with what has been called necessary or processual novation, in contradistinction to the voluntary or conventional novation described in those immediately preceding.
b. Pertaining to a social or linguistic process.
1957R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) ix. 316 An instructive processual analysis of the formation of sub⁓groups. 1958Willey & Phillips Method & Theory in Amer. Anthropol. 5 In the context of archaeology, processual interpretation is the study of the nature of what is vaguely referred to as the culture-historical process... It implies an attempt to discover regularities in the relationships given by the methods of culture-historical integration. 1960Amer. Anthropologist LXII. 19 How processual analysis might be more systematically related to structural analysis. 1970Antiquity XLIV. 28/1 In both these works..historical activities tend to be viewed as being essentially descriptive, while the ultimate aims of archaeology are characterized as being processual, that is to say, concerned with the formulation of general rules of cultural behaviour. 1971[see process n. 5 b]. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 295 Since understanding sentences, and generating others, in the language described implies constant switches from process to system and from system to process..he will have to find the most reasonable compromise between the requirements of systematic and processual simplicity. |