| 释义 |
† ˈcossic, a. Obs.
[ad. It. cossico, f. cosa, cossa: see coss n.1]
Pertaining to algebra, algebraic.
1557Recorde (title), The Whetstone of Witte, which is the seconde parte of Arithmeticke, containing the Extraction of Roots, the Cossike Practice, with the Rules of Equation. Ibid. S j b, Nombers Cossike, are soche as bee contracte vnto a denomination of some Cossike signe as 1. nomber, 1. roote, 1. square, 1. Cube, etc. a1656Bp. Hall Via Media Rem. Wks. (1660) 367 Strigelius..likens the place of predestination in Divinity to the Cossick Rule in Arithmetic. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 316 Algebra, or the analytics specious, symbolical, or cossick. 1674Dary in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 366 An universal series for any equation of two cossic notes. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. iii. i. §136. 242.
Hence † ˈcossicly adv., algebraically.
1557Recorde Whetst. S j, There bee some called nombers denominate vulgarely: and other bee called nombers denominate Cossikely. |