单词 | apparency |
释义 | apparencyn. archaic or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > seeming > action, fact, or quality apparency1393 seeming1398 appearancec1430 seemingness1640 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 63 This double ypocrisie With his devoute apparancie A viser set upon his face. 1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. lxii. f. 91, in Wks. Both sides labord..to crowne Their cause with the apparencie of might. 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 8 Who not comparable to him in reality, would yet seem to excell him in apparency. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xviii. 644 Apparencies, which have informed me when the patient has been any way irregular. 2. The quality of being apparent to the senses; visibility, apparentness. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > state of being clearly visible obviousness1661 apparency1668 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. ix. 315 Saphœda (so cal'd because of its apparency more than other foot-Veins). 1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 90 The non-apparency of either..being accounted for by the disproportion of our senses. 3. The quality of being apparent or evident to the mind; show of reason; apparentness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [noun] apparency1604 self-evidence1652 self-evidentism1825 unmistakability1857 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. xi. 36 Some..strive to proove, that the new-found world was knowne to the Ancients. And..wee cannot deny, but that there was some apparency. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 123 Yet would you, that God should fauour your infidelity by extraordinary wayes. What apparancy is there for this? 4. The position of being heir apparent. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > heir apparent > position of apparencec1375 apparency1741 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. ii. 183 Tho' he is Heir apparent at that Time, yet there is not that constant and perpetual Apparency. 1815 Encycl. Brit. XI. 655/2 The bare right of apparency founds the action against the life-renter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1393 |
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