单词 | agnition |
释义 | agnitionn. The action of recognizing or acknowledging something; a recognition, an acknowledgement; spec. = peripeteia n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement or recognition > [noun] knowledgelOE knownessa1200 knowledgingc1225 recognizancea1400 agnitiona1425 recognitionc1460 acknowledgec1510 agnizing1548 reknowledging1549 recognization1560 acknowledgement1570 recognoscence1571 allowing1598 reknowledgement1598 recognizon1611 reconnoissancea1734 spotting1871 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Eph. i. 17 (MED) Þe fadyr of glorye gyfe ȝou þe spyryt of wysdam and of reuelacyoun in to þe agnycyoun [L. agnicionem] of hym. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. 75 The agnition of the Shepeherds. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Philemon i. 6 That the communication of thy faith may be made euident in the agnition [L. agnitione] of al good that is in you in Christ Iesvs. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶vijv They would haue an heroicall Poem (aswell as a Tragedie) to be full of Peripetia, which I interpret an agnition of some vnlooked for fortune either good or bad, and a sudden change thereof. 1640 W. Hodson Divine Cosmogr. x. 149 There is nothing that obteineth more of God, then a thankfull agnition of the favours and benefits we daily receive at his bountifull hands. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. St. Paul in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 471 They liked not to retain God in the Agnition, or Practical Knowledge of him. a1704 E. Lake 16 Serm. (1705) xv. 324 Grateful Agnitions of the Mercies of God in Christ. 1798 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. I. 300 Everlasting peace, which is not wished for as a physical good merely, but also as a state proceeding from the agnition of duty. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 477 A solemn agnition & prophetic annunciation. 1854 A. Edersheim tr. H. M. Chalybäus Hist. Devel. Speculative Philos. Pref. p. viii The unsatisfactory character of the results obtained, where Logic alone is employed as the organ for the agnition of truth. 1887 H. Morley in R. Potter tr. Euripides Alcestis Introd. 47 In the circumstances which lead to the agnition, as the critics call it, our poet is thought to have reflected with an ill-natured severity on Æschylus. 1925 Spectator 21 Nov. 934/1 Provoking a pathetic agnition in the penultimate chapter. 1993 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Misreadings 52 This cat suffers various vicissitudes and surprises, unexpected agnitions (he has lain with his own mother, or killed his own father to gain possession of the large red chunk of meat). 2006 R. Galt New European Cinema 45 In II Postino, the spectator does not witness the protagonist's moment of agnition but discovers it at a remove. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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