单词 | expository syllogism |
释义 | > as lemmasexpository syllogism Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, exposition; serving to set forth the meaning (of something); containing an exposition; explanatory. expository syllogism, etc.: (see quots. 1628, a1856). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective] explanativea1500 expositive1535 resolutory1567 interpretative1569 expounding1571 illustrating1589 explanatory1600 explicative1602 explicatory1606 expository1628 clarifying1630 illustrative1643 luciferous1648 omnilucent1651 explaining?1683 illustratorya1734 elucidatory1774 elucidative1822 irradiativea1834 expositional1845 resolvent1856 enucleating1862 expositionary1882 luminant1891 interpreting1892 clarificatory1945 FYI1973 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 262 First they call this forme an Expository Syllogisme..because the third argument is as it were an exposition. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 251 Name me one place..that more evidently speaks in an Expository way of any Text. 1756 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (Abstr. ed.) Pref. This book may serve as a glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxxiii. 340 To be able to elude inconvenient texts..by expository ingenuity. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xiv. 263 (note) The instance selected is called the expositum, (τὸ ἐκτεθὲν); and hence singular propositions are called expository. 1867 J. S. Mill Inaug. Addr. St. Andrews 38 I could wish that it [instruction] were more expository, less polemical, and above all less dogmatic. 1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 493 Are the words ‘or in contemplation’ simply expository of the word ‘upon’? < as lemmas |
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