| 释义 |
‖ kat' exochen, advb. phr. Now rare.|kæˈtɛksəxɛn|
Also 6 catexochen, katexoken.
[ad. Gr. κατ' ἐξοχήν.]
Pre-eminently, ‘par excellence’.
The phrase is usually found in untransliterated Greek characters.
1588A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike sig. ¶ ¶ iv The Romayne Lawe, which Iustinian calleth the Cyuill law κατ' εξοχην, (as Homer is called the Poet). a1625Boys Wks. (1630) 621 Infidelitie called in holy Scripture sinne catexochen. Ibid. 866 And this day is termed here catexochen the day. 1633Massinger Guardian iii. i, You are a lover already; Be a drunkard too, and after turn small poet; And then you are mad—katexoken, the madman. 1698J. Sergeant Non Ultra (in Monist XXXIX, 1929) 605. §21 Which Propositions being..most fully and Properly such we do therefore, κατ' ἐξοχην, call Identical. 1841Mill Let. 1 Mar. in Works (1963) XIII. 466 Poetry κατ' ἐξοχήν or poet's poetry as opposed to everybody's poetry. 1865― Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xx. 402 If any general theory of the sufficiency of Evidence and the legitimacy of Generalization be possible, this must be Logic κατ' ἐξοχήν. 1879W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 88 Schopenhauer..says that Intuition..‘is knowledge κατ' ἐξοχήν’. 1969D. Daube Roman Law i. 26 The surety's promise is so striking that he is the promiser kat' exochen. |