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单词 destructive
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destructiveadj.n.

/dɪˈstrʌktɪv/
Etymology: < Old French destructif, -ive (1372 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter); = Provençal destructiu , Spanish destructivo , Italian distruttivo , < Latin dēstructīvus , < dēstruct- participial stem of dēstruĕre to destroy v.: see -ive suffix.
A. adj.
a. Having the quality of destroying; tending to destroy, put an end to, or completely spoil; pernicious, deadly, annihilative. Const. to, of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]
fellc1330
undone1340
ruinous?a1439
violablea1470
perniciousc1475
destructive1490
confusible1502
destroying1535
exitiable1548
ruinate1562
peremptory1567
wrackful1578
slaughterous1582
ruinating1595
ruining1605
corrumpent1607
wracksome1608
in suds1611
destructory1614
poisonousa1616
wrakefulc1625
predatory1626
predatorious1641
demolishing1648
untwined1649
undoing1654
destructionable1656
destructful1659
mortal1670
wreckinga1677
fatal1692
quadrumanous1704
interdestructive1805
annihilatory1825
demolitionary1834
ruinatious1845
consumptive1860
thunderous1874
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 22 In all destructyue of theyr personis, honoures, goodes, and chyuaunches.
1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 265v One of these two..shulde be destructiue to lyuynge creatures.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xiv. 64 A man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 318 The Apostle's sence is not the same with yours (but destructive to it).
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 54 Unpolitick, and even Destructive to the Services intended.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋7 Vice is in itself destructive of Pleasure.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 163. ⁋2 Destructive to happiness.
1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler 1 These destructive tyrants Shall shrink before your vengeance.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits i. 10 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power.
1875 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 6) V. i. 252 A rapid advance..under destructive fire.
1882 Daily Tel. 19 May Palmer's bowling proved extremely destructive, and he took no less than eight wickets.
b. In political and philosophical use, opposed to constructive and conservative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > in philosophy or politics
destructive1834
1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 1 108 The two distinct lines of conservative and destructive policy.
1841–44 R. W. Emerson Polit. in Wks. (1906) I. 241 The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless.
1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 148 After so much destructive criticism, to have little of instantly helpful truth to substitute in the room of what has been swept away.
1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 36 His position, therefore, is simply destructive.
1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 198 Most of us would probably find the importance of this epoch in its destructive contribution.
c. destructive distillation n. Chemistry see quots.
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1831 T. P. Jones New Conversat. Chem. xxviii. 281 When organized substances are decomposed at a red heat in close vessels, the process is called destructive distillation.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 284 Distillation may involve the decomposition of the substance heated, and the condensation of the products of decomposition, when it is termed destructive distillation.
d. Logic. Applied to conjunctive (or, as they are sometimes called, conditional) syllogisms and dilemmas, in which the conclusion negatives a hypothesis in one of the premisses.Thus: If A is B, C is D; C is not D, ∴ A is not B. If A is B, C is D, and if E is F, G is H; but either C is not D or G is not H, ∴ either A is not B, or E is not F.
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1827 R. Whately Elem. Logic ii. iv. §7 In a destructive sorites, you go back from the denial of the last consequent to the denial of the first antecedent: ‘G is not H; therefore A is not B.’
e. destructive metabolism n. = catabolism n.
B. n.
1. A destructive agent, instrument, or force; a destructive proposition or syllogism.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys
baneOE
losera1340
leeserc1380
stroyerc1380
destroyer1382
ravenerc1390
castera1400
confounder1401
wastera1425
stroyc1440
undoerc1440
unmakerc1450
confounderess1509
hydraa1513
stroy-good1540
abolisher1548
thunderbolt1559
disannullera1572
stroy-all1573
ruiner1581
down-puller1583
murdererc1585
spendingc1595
blaster1598
assassin1609
ruinater1609
dissolver1611
minerc1614
destructioner1621
fordoer1631
sinker1632
destructive1640
deletery1642
assassinatea1658
ruinator1658
destroyeress1662
destructora1691
dissolvent1835
solvent1841
wrecker1882
destructant1889
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [noun] > contradictory point
elencha1529
counterpoint1565
destructory1621
destructive1640
the reverse of the medalc1660
elenchus1663
backfall1838
1640 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavelli Prince Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Poysons..as destructives of Nature..are utterly to be abhord.
1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas Ep. Ded. sig. *3 It hath been a preparatorie destructive to Royaltie.
1646 Burd. Issach. in Phenix (1708) II. 299 Their confession of Faith..is more in Negatives and Destructives, than Affirmatives and Positives.
1674 W. Penn Just Rebuke 9 Giving, for Antidotes, Destructives to the Souls of Men.
1826 R. Whately Elements Logic ii. 116 Which is evidently a plain Destructive.
1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 56 The grand destructives of nature are the winds and the waves.
2. A person whose theory or practice tends to overthrow existing institutions or systems. (Chiefly dyslogistic.)
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of > supporter of
common holder1565
abolitionist1827
governmentalist1831
destructive1832
annexationist1841
destructionist1841
annexionist1844
decompositionist1849
expansionist1862
disintegrator1865
dissolutionist1882
irredentist1882
disintegrationist1884
isolationist1899
retentionist1899
free fooder1903
laissez-fairist1932
autarkist1938
elitist1938
neo-isolationist1950
non-aligner1963
1832 Examiner 786/1 The Radicals (or Destructives, as you are pleased to describe them).
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 4 To the critic of the schools, ever ready with compendious label, he is the revolutionary destructive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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