单词 | delibation |
释义 | † delibationn. Obsolete. 1. A brief or slight knowledge or experience of something; a taste of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] > instance of smatteringa1538 smatch1571 smackering1579 delibation1619 spatteringa1662 smatter1668 1619 Keepe your Text 32 For example of the perspicuous Texts of Scripture in defence of our Catholike faith, I will insist in some few of them for some delibation and taste of the rest. a1638 J. Mede Disc. Acts xvii. 4, in Wks. (1672) i. 19 Nor can it be understood without some delibation of Jewish Antiquity. 1782 J. Stedman Lælius & Hortensia iv. 44 All that you are to expect in the following letters, is such a delibation of each as may prove an inducement to further inquiries. 2. The action of taking or abstracting something from a larger whole; (also) the part which is abstracted. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > selecting from a number or for a purpose > the product of selection coil1574 culla1618 delibation1624 culling1692 selecta1734 1624 W. Ingpen Secrets of Numbers v. 25 These..are no other then a symbole..; proprietie, with Salomon; image, with Moses; delibation, with Cicero: where hee saith, Animos nostros haustos et delibatos ex diuinitate. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 216 Either..the Substance of God himself, together with that of the Evil Demon, or else certain Delibations from both..blended and confounded together. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xxi. 470 They considered the principles of motion and vegetation as delibations from the invisible fire of the universe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1619 |
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