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单词 relevant
释义 relevant, a.|ˈrɛlɪvənt|
Also 6 Sc. relivant.
[ad. med.L. relevant-em (1481 in Du Cange), pres. pple. of L. relevāre to raise up, etc. (see relieve v.): cf. It. rilevante ‘auailefull, of importance, of worth, of consequence’ (Florio), F. relevant (17th c. in Littré).]
1. a. Bearing upon, connected with, pertinent to, the matter in hand. (Rare before 1800.) Cf. relevance.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 498, I sall the schaw ane answer releuant.1646Chas. I Lett. to A. Henderson (1649) 55 To determine our differences, or, at least, to make our Probations and Arguments Relevant.1646R. Baillie Anabaptism (1647) 143 It is very relevant if it were true.1707J. Frazer Disc. Second Sight 15 It seems truly to be founded on relevant grounds.1782T. Pownall Study Antiq. 140 A positive regulation respecting marriage, relevant to a like regulation of the institution of the theocracy.1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 78 If we either admit those objections as relevant, or obviate them as unfounded.1851Gladstone Glean. (1879) VI. xxiii. 15 The advantage most relevant of all to the present purpose.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 4 Many things in a controversy might seem relevant, if we knew to what they were intended to refer.1948D. Cecil Two Quiet Lives ii. 140 To learn everything that could possibly be thought relevant to the subject.1969Harper's Mag. Nov. 86 Either we can commit ourselves to changing the institutions of our society that need to be changed, to make them—to use a term which I hate—‘relevant’..or we can sit back and try to defend them.1970N.Y. Times 1 July 44 Museums should have a more involved or relevant public role.1976Listener 20 May 627/3 The ultimate sin of the broadcaster is to keep off the air, because of his political or social prejudices, subjects which are relevant and significant.1978S. Braden Artists & People p. xvii, What actually makes a work of art relevant to people? It has been said that relevance is achieved when artists meet the real observations of their public.
b. Correspondent or proportional to something.
1868Rogers Pol. Econ. viii. (1876) 76 Population and the supply of food must be exactly relevant.Ibid. xiv. 191 The value..is absolutely relevant to the demand for them.
2. Sc. Law. Legally pertinent or sufficient.
1561[see relevancy].1644Maxwell Prerog. Kings 107 If they can make no relevant endictment..against them.1723in Maclaurin Argt. & Decis. Cases (1774) 70 [They] find the libel relevant to infer the pains of law.1753Stewart's Trial 149 [They] remit the pannel, with the libel as found relevant, to the knowledge of an assize.1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxii, The defence, that the panel had communicated her situation to her sister, was a relevant defence.1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 273 The exception of fraud, or force and fear, is not relevant against all actions.
3. Relieving; remedial. Obs. rare.
1730Bailey (folio), Relevant, relieving.1762Aston in Burke's Corr. (1844) I. 38 They ever pursued vindictive rather than relevant measures.
Hence ˈrelevantly adv.
1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 180 In respect of the libell relevantlie libellit aganis the said Thomas Kennedy.1883Law Rep. 11 Q.B. Div. 601 Parties and witnesses who make statements without malice and relevantly.
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