单词 | in nuce |
释义 | in nuceadv. In a condensed or simplified form; (also) using few words, concisely. Cf. in a nutshell at nutshell n. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short at a (also one) wordOE at few wordsOE shortly1303 in short wordsc1380 oncec1384 in short and plainc1386 in sum?a1425 at short wordsa1450 at short1513 briefly?1521 in a word1522 in one word1522 with a word1522 summa1535 to be short1544 in (the) fine1545 in few1550 summarily1567 in a sum1574 in shorta1577 in brief1609 briefa1616 in a little1623 tout court1747 sans phrase1808 in a nutshell1822 in nuce1854 1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity ii. xxii. 214 The religious man is happy in his imagination; he has all things in nuce [Ger. er hat Alles in nuce immer beisammen]; his possessions are always portable. 1869 N. Amer. Rev. July 182 Austria has been called a Europe in nuce. The German, the Sclavonic, the Romanic, and the Ugrian races are represented in it. 1941 A. Gode-von aesch Nat. Sci. in German Romanticism viii. 140 Here we have in nuce the complete result of the present analysis. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Oct. 1307/1 The idea of the modern family as social democracy in nuce. 2010 Church Times 19 Nov. 30/3 An introduction to a canonical approach in nuce, and full of interesting ideas that could make a book in themselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1854 |
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