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paradigmatic, a. (n.)|ˌpærədɪgˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. παραδειγµατικ-ός, f. παραδειγµατ-: see prec. and -ic.]
A. adj.
a. Of the nature of a paradigm; serving as a pattern; exemplary.
1662[see agogic a. 1]. 1793T. Taylor Plato Introd. Timaeus 372 After this, the demiurgic, paradigmatic, and final causes. 1828in Webster. 1888Amer. Jrnl. Philol. Oct. 294 The Timaeus seems at first to fit very nicely into the doctrine of the paradeigmatic idea. 1890J. H. Stirling Philos. & Theol. ii. 37 All these ideas..are not paradigmatic only but parental. 1965M. I. Finley in New Statesman 11 June 926/1 The authors do not distinguish between history as a systematic discipline and Aristotle's or Machiavelli's use of the past as a quarry for data for his social and political theories (‘paradigmatic history’, that has been called). 1973Black World Sept. 51 A violence that becomes, in Wright's vision, paradigmatic of the entire spectrum of violence Blacks experience in this country. 1974Nature 16 Aug. 609/1 Most of the philosophers of science..take the Comtean view, of physics as the paradigmatic science. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Jan. 88/3 To his contemporaries Defoe was insignificant except as the paradigmatic Grub Street hack. 1977Church Times 18 Feb. 6/3 Even if the (New Testament) accounts have been stylised, they have nonetheless a paradigmatic trustworthiness, an incontestable inner truth.
b. Linguistics. Belonging to a set of linguistically associated forms. Cf. paradigm 3.
1948J. R. Firth in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 175 Most phoneticians..have continued to elaborate the analysis of words... Such studies I should describe as paradigmatic and monosystemic in principle. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 43 A special instance of paradigmatic indiscreteness of phonic character is afforded by English æ. 1964Eng. Stud. XLV. 388 The concept of an active selective function of what has been called a paradigmatic frame does not serve teleological explanation of linguistic history. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 49 Paradigmatic relations are those holding between comparable elements at particular places in structures. 1972W. Labov Language in Inner City v. 215 Larry is a paradigmatic speaker of black English vernacular as opposed to standard English. 1973J. M. Anderson Struct. Aspects Lang. Change 124 In some cases syntagmatic influence may be the dominant force..; at other periods and under different conditions, paradigmatic forces may be stronger. 1975Language LI. 665 Halle 1973 argues that paradigmatic information should be represented in the dictionary.
†B. n. One who writes lives of religious persons to serve as examples of Christian holiness. Obs. rare.
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