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单词 -arian
释义

-ariansuffix

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Etymology: Based on Latin -ārius -ary suffix1 with the addition of -an suffix.
Used to form adjectives or corresponding nouns. The earliest formations of a general character are disciplinarian (n.) of the late 16th century, agrarian, antiquarian (n.), corpuscularian, proletarian, and veterinarian (n.) of the 17th century; of the numeral adjectives quinquagenarian (1569) and septuagenarian (1715) are the earliest recorded. The commonest use of the suffix is in terms denoting religious or moral tenets, as Millenarian, Predestinarian, sectarian, Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian, Trinitarian, Unitarian of the 17th century, Tractarian (1824), on the analogy of which were formed humanitarian, necessitarian, utilitarian, the jocular anythingarian and nothingarian of the 18th century, and the nonce-word strictarian (after sectarian).
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1838 R. Southey Devil's Walk in Poet. Wks. III. 94 My Utilitarians, My all sorts of -inians And all sorts of -arians My all sorts of -ists.
1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 125 I believe there are strictarians who think it too gay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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