| 释义 |
visional, a.|ˈvɪʒənəl|
[f. vision n. + -al1.]
1. Connected or concerned with, relating to, based upon, a vision or visions.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 35 Is not true and pure diuinitie according to the diuision of some learned, and reuerant autors, either Expositiue, and Interpretatiue: or else Visionall, and Propheticall? 1644Jessop Angel of Eph. 8 In visionall speeches Daniel..saith to Nebuchadnezzar [etc.]. 1668Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 574 That this Psalm was composed upon the visional deliberation of the defeat of that army. 1732Waterland Script. Vind. iii. 53 And therefore this visional Interpretation appears to be preferable to the other. Ibid. 78 So much in Favour of the visional Construction. 1908J. Orr Resurrect. Jesus viii. 214 May it not at least be possible to show that the appearance of Jesus can be explained..either by subjective hallucinations, which is the older form of the visional theory, or [etc.]?
2. Of the nature of, seen or occurring in, forming part of, a vision; visionary, unreal.
1647R. H. Trial & Exam. Serm. by Haslewood 2 There was no materiall house at all, nor any gate; unless he will make the visionall ladder the gate or house. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxii. 376 The teaching of God, and our hearing and leaving of him, is not to be understood of any extra⁓ordinary visional appearances. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 295 A real and corporal combat not visional or imaginary. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 11. 1/1 We cannot..suppose, that Visional Representations wou'd be exhibited to us under the Notion of Realities. a1767Boston Serm. (1850) 41 What sort of wrestling was it? and how could worm Jacob prevail over an uncreated angel? Some make it visional, and in a dream. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844) II. 70 The interpreting angel..does not superfluously enter into any description of the visional conflict beheld by Daniel. 1858H. Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. ii. (1864) 41 Some apparition or visional wonder.
3. Pertaining to sight; visual. rare—1.
1790Bystander 201 With an ardent brand Ulysses deprived him of his only visional organ.
Hence ˈvisionally adv., as or in a vision.
1647Trapp Comm. Rev. xi. 14 The second woe is past: Visionally past, not eventually. a1679Poole Annot., Ezek. xxxvii. 1 The Spirit of God carrying him visionally not corporally. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 11. 1/1 We esteem the whole as Really, and not Visionally perform'd. 1847H. Miller Test. Rocks (1857) 169 The reason why the drama of creation has been optically described seems to be, that it was in reality visionally revealed. |