单词 | advention |
释义 | adventionn. Now rare. The action or fact of coming or being added from outside; extrinsic addition; adventitious occurrence. Cf. adventition n.In quot. c1475 as a count noun: something adventitious; an extrinsic addition. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > non-essentialness > that which is non-essential or accident accidentala1398 adventionc1475 accident1491 circumstance1599 under-accident1632 contingential1647 modality1647 adventitial1652 extrinsical1652 adventition1661 ornamental1774 inessential1778 non-essential1806 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 55 (MED) Al kynd of syn, felony, and abhominacoun, and new aduencouns [L. adinventionis]. And in þer aduencouns þey are filid..and to þe court of heuen are þey moost abominable. a1600 in Proc. Suffolk Instit. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. (1930) 20 203 By seruice of vjd. Rent per annum to be payde at the termes vsuall and on advencyon at the Curt next after the fast of Saint Michaell. 1648 E. Sherburne in tr. Seneca Medea 110 The Poets make the unusuall and suddaine splendor of Flames to be a generall signall of the Advention of any of the Deities. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Med.-philos. Disc. Fermentation x. 36 Somtimes some Bodies conceive a burning without the advention [L. adventu] of another fire, only by their own effervency. 1790 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 300/2 The first disposition inclines and qualifies to fulfil the perfect law of nature. The latter averts from that law. On account of the advention of the latter disposition, a law of grace becomes necessary. 1895 Med. Reporter (Calcutta) 16 Dec. 470/2 As to the after-results of the system, it was objected on its first advention by some..scientists that lives of such feebleness at the outset would probably never develop into sound, strong boys and girls. 1914 Bot. Gaz. 57 375 He..instances several kinds of wounding which result in a greater advention of food material. 1967 J. W. Sweetman Islam & Christian Theol. II. ii. 134 There might be an eternal suppositum in which there was an infinite succession of..accidents, this successive advention of accidents being what is actually the creative process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1475 |
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