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programmatic, a.|prəʊgræˈmætɪk| [f. Gr. πρόγραµµα, -γραµµατ-, program + -ic.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a programme; of the nature of programme music (see program n. 4).
1896Godey's Mag. Apr. 422/2 The symphony is not at all programmatic. 1898Century Mag. LV. 777 A ‘Bauerntanz’ which is rather programmatic. 1904G. S. Gordon Let. 25 Oct. (1943) 4 Pardon this very egotistical and programmatic letter dear Molly. 1935B.B.C. Ann. 81/2 Announcements relating to B.B.C. policy in every respect—programmatic, engineering, or other—are issued. 1937Proc. Prehistoric Soc. III. 265 There is no shortage of programmatic declarations, of resumés of problems and aims. 1941Mind L. 395, I may fitly use these programmatic statements as my text on which to hang the main reflections. 1947Proc. IRE XXXV. 757/1 Both digital and programmatic information must be stored: the machine must be able to remember both the numbers that are operated on and the instructions for performing the operations. 1958Listener 27 Nov. 861/1 No new Pope ever makes what might be called a programmatic speech giving the policies he intends to follow. 1971S. Herrick Astrodynamics I. vii. 176 Programmatic or program-assisted singularities are destructive bits of sub-programming..of which two are noteworthy. 1974Listener 24 Jan. 121/3 A symphonic poem along Straussian programmatic lines. 1977M. Gouder in J. Hick Myth of God Incarnate iv. 65 In the programmatic opening paragraph of Acts, Luke designates the advance of the church as being in four stages. 1979Dædalus Summer 105 Even the most apparently blithe comedies are far more programmatic than a haphazard jumble of anecdotal detail. So prograˈmmatically adv., in the manner of a programme or programme music; in accordance with a programme; with regard to a programme; proˈgrammatist, one who composes or draws up a program (in quots., in senses 2 b and 3).
1895Westm. Gaz. 20 May 7/1 The organised system of gambling, which, so far as the ‘programme’ of the anti⁓gamblers is known..it is the main purpose of the programmatists to suppress. 1899J. P. Postgate in Classical Rev. Oct. 359/1 Each program-atist in his turn feels it his duty to set out with a prolix examination of his prolix predecessors. 1947A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era xi. 126 Spohr wrote a ‘Characteristic Tone-Painting in the Form of a Symphony’..which makes use of a poem as the starting-point for revivifying programmatically the traditional form of the symphony. 1952Word VIII. 97 Still other American linguists are programmatically rejecting the strict asseverance of meaning from sound and the exclusion of meaning from linguistic science. 1971S. Herrick Astrodynamics I. vii. 179 Programmatically or computationally, especially with automatic, automaton machinery, there is a great difference. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Mar. 344/5 Beardsley's admirable drawing and programmatically tortured lettering. 1978Nature 23 Feb. 785/3 The book..offers to approach flow phenomena programmatically in the framework of a general dynamic theory. |