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单词 advention
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adventionn.

Brit. /ədˈvɛnʃn/, U.S. /ədˈvɛnʃən/
Forms: late Middle English aduencoun, 1500s aduencyon, 1600s advencyon, 1600s– advention.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin advention-, adventio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin advention-, adventio removal or transfer of relics (9th cent.), appearance (of a suitor in court) (14th cent. in a British source), acquisition, something acquired (15th cent.), approach, coming (16th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin advent- , past participial stem of advenīre to come (to) (see advene v.) + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare earlier advent n. and later adventition n.Given the reading of the Latin text that it renders, quot. c1475 may perhaps show a transmission error for adinvention n. rather than an example of this word.
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).
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