| 单词 | definitive aorta |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdefinitive aorta 2. Having the character of finality as a product; determinate, definite, fixed and final. Of an edition of a literary work, a textbook, etc.: authoritative; the most complete and authoritative to date. In Biology opposed to formative or primitive, as definitive organs, definitive aorta. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > definite or determinate firm1377 determinatec1386 certain1393 determinablec1400 precisec1443 finite1493 well-defined1551 definite1553 determined1570 set1594 perfixed1601 formed1605 punctual1615 well-marked1620 definitive1624 determinated1635 determinativea1676 clear-cut1843 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [adjective] > defined, well-formed > of statement or speaker utter1472 absolute?1504 peremptory1532 perfect1569 resolved1577 confident1611 categoricala1620 definitive1624 textuary1632 categorematical1654 categoric1678 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 53 [It] being indeede the very Definitiue Summe of this Art, to distribute vsefully and gracefully a well chosen Plot. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vi Other Authors write often dubiously, even in matters wherein is expected a strict and definitive truth. View more context for this quotation 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 174 The temporary system established by the law of 1st August, 1793. The definitive system established by the law of 10th December, 1799. 1865 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 4/4 Some days will probably elapse before we shall be able to announce a definitive result. 1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. v. 399 A definitive orbit of the comet. 1882 A. C. Swinburne Let. 27 Sept. in Notes & Queries (1965) CCX. 304/2 Dr. Grosart..is about to publish what the French would call a ‘definitive edition’ of Daniel. 1887 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 8 484 With the four volumes first mentioned the Goethe Society in Weimar begins the publication of the definitive edition of Goethe's works. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 803 The primitive ovum divides; one of the cells thus produced grows into the definitive ovum. 1928 T. S. Eliot in E. Pound Sel. Poems p. vii This book is, in my eyes, rather a convenient Introduction to Pound's work than a definitive edition. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. iv. 44 Ampleforth..was engaged in producing garbled versions—definitive texts, they were called—of poems which had become ideologically offensive. 1959 Spectator 21 Aug. 235/1 That vague uneasiness one has come to feel in the presence of American ‘definitive’ biographies. < as lemmas |
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