单词 | conjuncture |
释义 | conjuncturen. a. The action of joining together; the fact or state of being joined together; a joining, conjunction, combination. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] conjunctionc1374 jointurec1374 juncture1589 conjugation1605 syntax1615 injunction1643 colligation1651 togetherness1656 conjuncture1665 junction1711 symphysy1712 conjointment1814 jointedness1881 symphysis1891 knit1892 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > conjunction of circumstances concourse1642 conjunctiona1677 conjuncture1736 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > action or fact of combining > of events or circumstances conjunctiona1677 conjuncture1736 1665 I. Walton Life of Hooker i. 7 This meekness, and conjuncture of knowledge with modesty. 1672 Mede's Wks., Life 2 What words he most stuck at, either single or in conjuncture. 1679 T. Hobbes Behemoth (unauthorized ed.) 94 By the conjuncture of Philosophy and Divinity. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 59 A Conjuncture of Accidents. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] meetingc1330 convention1490 visaginga1500 conventicle1589 conventinga1625 conjuncture1644 convening1659 congress1675 1644 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 105 To prevent ye conjuncture of Sir Thomas Fairfax and his father. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xx. 41 God prosper you at home, as me abroad, and send us in good time a joyfull conjuncture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > union in yokeOE couplec1320 alliancec1325 unionc1475 accouplement1483 accouplinga1535 conjunction1541 coupling1641 conjuncture1679 conjugationc1783 1679–1714 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1816) I. i. ii. 191 If a horror were not struck in men at conjunctures in these degrees. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > a join or junction juncturea1382 jointure1382 joiningc1384 commissure?c1425 shuttingc1440 concourse?a1560 abutment1644 internodium1653 shut1721 uniting1728 conjuncture1747 join1825 junction1841 1747 J. Burton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 542 Weighton now stands at the Conjuncture of several Roads, which here meet. 1798 T. Hinderwell Hist. Scarborough i. i. 13. 2. spec. A meeting of circumstances or events; a particular state of affairs, esp. of a critical nature; a juncture, crisis. (The only current sense.) a. simply. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > critical point or crisis point?c1225 conjuncture1619 crise1643 juncture1656 crisis1659 hinge1775 cross-road1795 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > juncture or critical point timeeOE point?c1225 state of time (also times)1534 pass1560 conjuncture1619 juncture1656 hinge1775 cross-road1795 contingency1803 1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 141 The Spanishe succors comming in so fatal a conjuncture maye..dismaye the Bohemians. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 59 In certain Conjunctures, Ignorance and Folly..may have their Advantages. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 214 Measures that might promote the Public Service at this critical Conjuncture. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) vii. 25 Such a conjuncture had never occurred. b. of time, affairs, etc. ΚΠ 1624 Ld. Kensington in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. III. 173 Very unseasonably in this conjuncture of tyme. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 93 What is worse in the present conjuncture of affairs. 1812 J. Jebb Let. 2 Oct. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 108 In the life of every man, there are providential conjunctures of time, place, and person, which are of infinite importance. 1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) i. §57. 45 Certain conjunctures of atmospheric or other circumstances. c. An astrological or astronomical conjunction. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > aspect > [noun] > conjunction conjunction1398 concourse1578 conjuncture1605 synod1646 syzygy1656 coition1678 appulse1684 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 100 This coniuncture to haue remayned for some space after the great and general deluge. 1668 Earl of Clarendon Tracts (1727) 558 Two several men born in the same conjuncture. 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xxiii. 241 There are conjunctures, when Venus eclipses part of the Sun's disk. 3. quasi concrete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > connected conjuncture1647 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική xi. 177 The Apostles were forc'd to unloose the whole conjuncture of parts and principles. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. 22 His purposes untwist, as easily as the rude conjuncture of uncombining cables, in the violence of a Northern tempest. ΚΠ 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 673 The arms..are..supposed to be the feril of a pilgrim's staff..to which are added a number of other conjunctures. 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