单词 | amplification of the predicate |
释义 | > as lemmasamplification of the predicate 3. esp. Of words and phrases: extension of meaning. amplification of the predicate (Grammar), = extension or enlargement of the predicate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun] > addition of meaning amplification1551 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Liiiv, Those rules of restryctyons, amplyfycatyons and supposytyons, very wittelye inuented in the small Logycalles. 1578 T. Timme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Gen. 195 This saying [in this generation]..is added for Amplification. 1656 N. Hardy First Epist. John (1865) xxx. 185/2 An amplification of the proposition. 1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xvi. 1. 217 The intercession recorded in John xvii is but an amplification of this cry. < as lemmas |
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