emphaticaladj.

Brit.

/ɪmˈfatᵻkl/,

/ɛmˈfatᵻkl/, U.S.

/ᵻmˈfædɪk(ə)l/,

/ɛmˈfædɪk(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s emphatycal, 1500s–1600s emphaticall, 1500s– emphatical, 1600s emphacicall, 1600s emphattical.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin emphaticus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin emphaticus emphatic adj. + -al suffix¹.In sense 6 after the specific sense ‘appearance’ of post-classical Latin emphasis emphasis n.; compare slightly later emphasis n. 7.

In modern use emphatic adj. is the usual word; emphatical was more common until the 18th cent.

I. Senses relating to emphasis n. I.

†1. Of language: that implies more than is directly said; conveying further meaning by implication; allusive, suggestive. Cf. emphasis n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > implying more than is said

emphatical1563

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 984/2 Chrisostome..hath many figuratiue speaches and Emphaticall loquutions.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 24 The expression of Scripture is more Emphatical than is commonly apprehended.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 337 Great things must be delivered plainly, an emphatical tone would spoil all.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 56 It is an emphatical and emblematical term to express evil, by the negative of good.

a. Esp. of language: powerfully and forcibly expressive; spoken with force or emphasis; (also) serving to emphasize something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective]

sensiblea1393

eloquent1393

rhetoricc1450

mightya1500

pithy1529

grave1541

pithful1548

weighty1560

sappy1563

emphatical1567

fasta1568

thwacking1567

forceful1571

enforceable1589

energetical1596

eloquious1599

sinewy1600

emphatic1602

sinewed1604

strong1604

tonitruous1606

nervose1645

nervous1663

energetic1674

energic1683

strong1685

cogent1718

lapidary1724

forcible1726

authoritative1749

terse1777

telling1819

vigorous1821

sturdy1822

tonitruant1861

meaty1874

vertebrate1882

energized1887

jawy1898

heavy1970

1567 W. Salesbury Explan. Certaine Wordes in tr. Lliver Gweddi Gyffredin sig. ¶(i) Ys, is verye often vsed in the translation to expresse the emphatical energie or notable vehemence, where the Latine hath & or etiam, and the English yea, or euen.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. xxv. i. 362 Whereon she hath imprinted hir owne image and emphaticall superscription.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 395 This..forced from that..Father this emphaticall discourse.

1642 Plea for Moderation Thomason Tracts CXLIII. No. 7. B4 Here is a chaine consisting of fifteene linkes [i.e. verses of poetry], all of them most expressive and emphaticall.

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 11 June 2/2 The Emphatical Expression of Praise and Blame.

1759 N. Tindal Contin. Rapin's Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VIII. vi. 331 The emphatical gestures with which he accompanied every thing he spoke, seconded the imposition.

1767 T. Gibbons Rhetoric i. v. 75 We should take care that whatever epithet, title, or denomination [used]..should be..emphatical and striking.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. ix. 288 Used so many and such emphatical terms to impress a belief that [etc.].

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Exclamation, a sign by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked; thus [!];—called also exclamation point.

1996 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 16 Nov. c11 When she finally shows her humanity, describing their son's childhood, it comes off..stagily theatrical, with far-off eyes and emphatical repetitions.

†b. Better than all others of the same kind; pre-eminent, supreme. Frequently in emphatical day (of Christ): the prophesied day of Christ's return to earth at the Last Judgement; the day of the Second Coming. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adjective] > having the character or quality of

emphaticala1652

insistivea1657

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. iv. 323 The time of that Emphatical revelation of the great Mysterie of God.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 94 The Emphaticall decussation, or fundamentall figure.

1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 484 The day of Christ's appearance is..the emphatical day.

1854 G. S. Faber Many Mansions (ed. 2) iii. iii. 191 The Thessalonians..had imagined, that they were on the very eve of the Day of Christ, the emphatical Day of Christ, or the Day of the Second Advent.

3. Of an action, attribute, argument, etc.: strongly marked; powerful, forceful.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > vigorous or intense in operation

strongeOE

smartc1300

steevec1300

keen1340

piercinga1400

perceantc1400

forta1513

incisive1528

vigorous1548

forcible1555

emphatical1581

searching1590

nervous1616

strenuous1632

arrowy1650

intent1650

urging1658

sinewous1663

emphatic1689

drastic1808

needling1839

shrewd1842

gimlet1894

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 436 We..apply..improper and borrowed speeches to make the matter seem more emphaticall [L. ad maiorem emphasim].

1641 T. Jordan Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections sig. B7^v [He] speaks the base word Coward, With such emphaticall contempt.

1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum xxxii. 194 Here we have a very Excellent, and an Emphaticall example.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 272 Musicians..who..ornament their persons in the most emphatical manner.

1805 J. Foster Ess. i. vii. 108 Some..brand of emphatical reprobation.

1874 E. A. B. R. Lewis King's Stratagem ii. ii. 30 Waldimir (rubbing his arm). Thy clasp, my lord, is too emphatical.

1904 Bee-keeper's Rev. 15 Oct. 336/2 The next day the committee wrote out a most emphatical denial and explanation.

1997 Trames 1 118 The poem ends with an emphatical cry to the man to flee wherever he can with the help of the night and love.

4. Of a person: = emphatic adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > outstanding

particular1485

emphatical1606

prominent1609

remarked1623

protuberant1730

emphatic1760

prosilient1828

outstanding1830

focalizing1838

large1883

standout1905

stickout1937

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. A3^v My Captaine is the Emphaticall man.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 31 The King was so emphatical and elaborat on this Theam.

1678 T. Jordan Triumphs of London in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Comapny of Grocers (1869) 528 Pleased with..the promptitude of the emphatical speaker.

1788 A. Hamilton et al. Federalist II. lxxxiv. 347 He is every where peculiarly emphatical in his encomiums on the habeas corpus act.

1831 T. Carlyle in Westm. Rev. July 18 Dame Ute bids her not be too emphatical.

1891 H. James Album ii, in Theatricals II. 112 (stage direct.) Emphatical but sad, as she pauses.

2009 Afr. News (Nexis) 19 Dec. Ningi was emphatical that the trend where companies pay lip service to sports development would no longer be tolerated.

†a. Of or relating to the way that language is emphasized. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. x. 357 They were mistaken in the Emphaticall apprehension, placing the consideration upon the words, If I will, whereas it properly lay in these, when I come.

b. Of a word, syllable, etc.: that bears the stress in pronunciation. Also of a word: that has particular importance in a sentence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > emphasized

emphatical1662

emphatic1762

1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 14 Where h doth not immediatly follow 'tis [i.e. the letter w is] pronounced soft, as Whirlwind remolino, where the first w is far more emphatical then the second.

1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 26 And the emphatical Words..in a Sentence are those which carry a Weight or Importance in themselves.

1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 175 Other words..may begin with capitals, when they are remarkably emphatical.

1843 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 66 To make the syllable έν more emphatical than the former one, and consequently the emphatical syllable of the word.

1883 W. R. Balch People's Dict. (rev. ed.) 347 The next thing to be regarded in reading is the Emphasis, and to see that it be always laid on the emphatical word.

1904 C. Johnson Old-time Schools & School-books ix. 254 As an aid to clear comprehension and correct enunciation the text is well peppered with words in italics to indicate that such words are ‘emphatical’.

2000 R. Toft Heart to Heart viii. 155 The emphatical words in sentences are not always the ones which are principle in the grammatical sense.

II. Senses relating to deceptive visual appearance. Cf. emphasis n. II.

6. History of Science. Designating colours that are not inherent in an object, such as those produced by a prism or seen in a rainbow, regarded as being less real than colours seen on the surface of something. Cf. emphasis n. 7.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > seeming or apparent > of colours

emphatical1646

evanid1663

fantastical1665

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > of colours: merely apparent

evanid1626

emphatical1646

fantastical1665

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. ix. 322 That there is an emphaticall or apparent rednesse in one.

1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours i. iv. 76 Emphatical Colours are Light it self Modified by Refractions.

1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Evanid Evanid colours are also called fantastical and emphatical colours.

1986 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 47 14 He [sc. Descartes] is the first..to insist that color is color and to attack the scholastic philosophers for their sharp distinction between ‘true’ colors and those that are merely ‘apparent’, ‘false’, or ‘emphatical’, like the colors of the rainbow.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	emphatical
释义	emphaticaladj. Brit. /ɪmˈfatᵻkl/, /ɛmˈfatᵻkl/, U.S. /ᵻmˈfædɪk(ə)l/, /ɛmˈfædɪk(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s emphatycal, 1500s–1600s emphaticall, 1500s– emphatical, 1600s emphacicall, 1600s emphattical. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin emphaticus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < post-classical Latin emphaticus emphatic adj. + -al suffix¹.In sense 6 after the specific sense ‘appearance’ of post-classical Latin emphasis emphasis n.; compare slightly later emphasis n. 7. In modern use emphatic adj. is the usual word; emphatical was more common until the 18th cent. I. Senses relating to emphasis n. I. †1. Of language: that implies more than is directly said; conveying further meaning by implication; allusive, suggestive. Cf. emphasis n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > implying more than is said emphatical1563 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 984/2 Chrisostome..hath many figuratiue speaches and Emphaticall loquutions. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 24 The expression of Scripture is more Emphatical than is commonly apprehended. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 337 Great things must be delivered plainly, an emphatical tone would spoil all. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 56 It is an emphatical and emblematical term to express evil, by the negative of good. 2. a. Esp. of language: powerfully and forcibly expressive; spoken with force or emphasis; (also) serving to emphasize something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] sensiblea1393 eloquent1393 rhetoricc1450 mightya1500 pithy1529 grave1541 pithful1548 weighty1560 sappy1563 emphatical1567 fasta1568 thwacking1567 forceful1571 enforceable1589 energetical1596 eloquious1599 sinewy1600 emphatic1602 sinewed1604 strong1604 tonitruous1606 nervose1645 nervous1663 energetic1674 energic1683 strong1685 cogent1718 lapidary1724 forcible1726 authoritative1749 terse1777 telling1819 vigorous1821 sturdy1822 tonitruant1861 meaty1874 vertebrate1882 energized1887 jawy1898 heavy1970 1567 W. Salesbury Explan. Certaine Wordes in tr. Lliver Gweddi Gyffredin sig. ¶(i) Ys, is verye often vsed in the translation to expresse the emphatical energie or notable vehemence, where the Latine hath & or etiam, and the English yea, or euen. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. xxv. i. 362 Whereon she hath imprinted hir owne image and emphaticall superscription. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 395 This..forced from that..Father this emphaticall discourse. 1642 Plea for Moderation Thomason Tracts CXLIII. No. 7. B4 Here is a chaine consisting of fifteene linkes [i.e. verses of poetry], all of them most expressive and emphaticall. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 11 June 2/2 The Emphatical Expression of Praise and Blame. 1759 N. Tindal Contin. Rapin's Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VIII. vi. 331 The emphatical gestures with which he accompanied every thing he spoke, seconded the imposition. 1767 T. Gibbons Rhetoric i. v. 75 We should take care that whatever epithet, title, or denomination [used]..should be..emphatical and striking. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. ix. 288 Used so many and such emphatical terms to impress a belief that [etc.]. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Exclamation, a sign by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked; thus [!];—called also exclamation point. 1996 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 16 Nov. c11 When she finally shows her humanity, describing their son's childhood, it comes off..stagily theatrical, with far-off eyes and emphatical repetitions. †b. Better than all others of the same kind; pre-eminent, supreme. Frequently in emphatical day (of Christ): the prophesied day of Christ's return to earth at the Last Judgement; the day of the Second Coming. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adjective] > having the character or quality of emphaticala1652 insistivea1657 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. iv. 323 The time of that Emphatical revelation of the great Mysterie of God. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 94 The Emphaticall decussation, or fundamentall figure. 1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 484 The day of Christ's appearance is..the emphatical day. 1854 G. S. Faber Many Mansions (ed. 2) iii. iii. 191 The Thessalonians..had imagined, that they were on the very eve of the Day of Christ, the emphatical Day of Christ, or the Day of the Second Advent. 3. Of an action, attribute, argument, etc.: strongly marked; powerful, forceful. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > vigorous or intense in operation strongeOE smartc1300 steevec1300 keen1340 piercinga1400 perceantc1400 forta1513 incisive1528 vigorous1548 forcible1555 emphatical1581 searching1590 nervous1616 strenuous1632 arrowy1650 intent1650 urging1658 sinewous1663 emphatic1689 drastic1808 needling1839 shrewd1842 gimlet1894 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 436 We..apply..improper and borrowed speeches to make the matter seem more emphaticall [L. ad maiorem emphasim]. 1641 T. Jordan Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections sig. B7^v [He] speaks the base word Coward, With such emphaticall contempt. 1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum xxxii. 194 Here we have a very Excellent, and an Emphaticall example. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 272 Musicians..who..ornament their persons in the most emphatical manner. 1805 J. Foster Ess. i. vii. 108 Some..brand of emphatical reprobation. 1874 E. A. B. R. Lewis King's Stratagem ii. ii. 30 Waldimir (rubbing his arm). Thy clasp, my lord, is too emphatical. 1904 Bee-keeper's Rev. 15 Oct. 336/2 The next day the committee wrote out a most emphatical denial and explanation. 1997 Trames 1 118 The poem ends with an emphatical cry to the man to flee wherever he can with the help of the night and love. 4. Of a person: = emphatic adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > outstanding particular1485 emphatical1606 prominent1609 remarked1623 protuberant1730 emphatic1760 prosilient1828 outstanding1830 focalizing1838 large1883 standout1905 stickout1937 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. A3^v My Captaine is the Emphaticall man. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 31 The King was so emphatical and elaborat on this Theam. 1678 T. Jordan Triumphs of London in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Comapny of Grocers (1869) 528 Pleased with..the promptitude of the emphatical speaker. 1788 A. Hamilton et al. Federalist II. lxxxiv. 347 He is every where peculiarly emphatical in his encomiums on the habeas corpus act. 1831 T. Carlyle in Westm. Rev. July 18 Dame Ute bids her not be too emphatical. 1891 H. James Album ii, in Theatricals II. 112 (stage direct.) Emphatical but sad, as she pauses. 2009 Afr. News (Nexis) 19 Dec. Ningi was emphatical that the trend where companies pay lip service to sports development would no longer be tolerated. 5. †a. Of or relating to the way that language is emphasized. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. x. 357 They were mistaken in the Emphaticall apprehension, placing the consideration upon the words, If I will, whereas it properly lay in these, when I come. View more context for this quotation b. Of a word, syllable, etc.: that bears the stress in pronunciation. Also of a word: that has particular importance in a sentence. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > emphasized emphatical1662 emphatic1762 1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 14 Where h doth not immediatly follow 'tis [i.e. the letter w is] pronounced soft, as Whirlwind remolino, where the first w is far more emphatical then the second. 1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 26 And the emphatical Words..in a Sentence are those which carry a Weight or Importance in themselves. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 175 Other words..may begin with capitals, when they are remarkably emphatical. 1843 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 66 To make the syllable έν more emphatical than the former one, and consequently the emphatical syllable of the word. 1883 W. R. Balch People's Dict. (rev. ed.) 347 The next thing to be regarded in reading is the Emphasis, and to see that it be always laid on the emphatical word. 1904 C. Johnson Old-time Schools & School-books ix. 254 As an aid to clear comprehension and correct enunciation the text is well peppered with words in italics to indicate that such words are ‘emphatical’. 2000 R. Toft Heart to Heart viii. 155 The emphatical words in sentences are not always the ones which are principle in the grammatical sense. II. Senses relating to deceptive visual appearance. Cf. emphasis n. II. 6. History of Science. Designating colours that are not inherent in an object, such as those produced by a prism or seen in a rainbow, regarded as being less real than colours seen on the surface of something. Cf. emphasis n. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > seeming or apparent > of colours emphatical1646 evanid1663 fantastical1665 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > of colours: merely apparent evanid1626 emphatical1646 fantastical1665 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. ix. 322 That there is an emphaticall or apparent rednesse in one. View more context for this quotation 1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours i. iv. 76 Emphatical Colours are Light it self Modified by Refractions. 1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Evanid Evanid colours are also called fantastical and emphatical colours. 1986 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 47 14 He [sc. Descartes] is the first..to insist that color is color and to attack the scholastic philosophers for their sharp distinction between ‘true’ colors and those that are merely ‘apparent’, ‘false’, or ‘emphatical’, like the colors of the rainbow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1563
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