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cataphoric, a.|kætəˈfɒrɪk|
Also 9 kataphoric.
[ad. Gr. καταϕορικ-ός, f. καταϕορά a bringing down, f. κατά down + ϕέρειν to carry.]
1. Of the action of an electric current: Carrying a fluid along with it, producing electric osmose.
1887in Syd. Soc. Lex. 1890M. A. Starr in Electricity in Daily Life (1891) 271 The second action of a continuous galvanic current is to move along with it the fluids which lie in its path. This is called its cataphoric action. 1891M. A. Starr in Electr. Daily Life 271 The second action of a continuous galvanic current is to move along with it the fluids which lie in its path. This is called its cataphoric action. 1895Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. Suppl. 267/1 The cataphoric transfer of molecules of protoplasm and liquid from one cell to another. 1903Med. Record 7 Mar. 363/1 The cataphoric electrode..is connected with the positive pole of the battery.
2. Gram. Of, pertaining to, or designating reference to a succeeding word or group of words; contrasted with anaphoric a.
1976Halliday & Hasan Cohesion in English i. 17 So far we have considered cohesion purely as an anaphoric relation... But the presupposition may go in the opposite direction, with the presupposed element following. This we shall refer to as cataphora... The presupposed element may..consist of more than one sentence. Where it does not, the cataphoric reference is often signalled in writing with a colon. 1983Brown & Yule Discourse Analysis vi. 192 Endophoric relations are of two kinds: those which look back in the text for their interpretation, which Halliday & Hasan call anaphoric relations, and those which look forward in the text for their interpretation, which are called cataphoric relations. 1985R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. 185 When the adverbial follows the past tense, this may be called the cataphoric use of the definite past..:We went to the theatre. |