absurdadj.n.

Brit.

/əbˈsəːd/,

/əbˈzəːd/, U.S.

/əbˈsərd/,

/æbˈsərd/,

/əbˈzərd/,

/æbˈzərd/

Forms: 1500s–1600s absurde, 1500s– absurd, 1600s obsurd.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French absurde; Latin absurdus.

Etymology: < Middle French, French absurde (adjective) unreasonable, contrary to common sense (late 14th cent.; beginning of the 13th cent. in Old French as absorde ), (noun) (with indefinite article) something absurd, an absurdity (16th cent.), (with definite article) the absurd, absurdity (17th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin absurdus out-of-tune, discordant, awkward, uncouth, uncivilized, preposterous, ridiculous, inappropriate < ab- ab- prefix + surdus surd adj. With use as noun compare classical Latin absurda , neuter plural (Quintilian). Compare earlier absurdity n.Compare Occitan absurde , absurdo , Catalan absurd (1653), Spanish absurdo (c1400), Portuguese absurdo (1589), Italian assurdo (beginning of the 14th cent.). In sense B. 1b in philosophy after French l'absurde (1942 or earlier in this sense) in the writings of Albert Camus.

A. adj.

a. Of a thing: against or without reason or propriety; incongruous, unreasonable, illogical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective]

impertinenta1425

royeta1522

absurd1531

preposterous1533

ridiculous1533

deaf?1541

monstrous?1549

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fanatical1598

fantastical1600

laughable1600

fantasticc1616

nonsense1621

arsy-versy1628

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nonsensical1645

ridicule?1669

fancical1671

grotesque1747

rich1836

saugrenu1876

laughsome1884

cockeyed1894

hilarious1925

Rube Goldberg1928

whimsy-whamsy1931

Rube Goldbergian1933

cockamamie1941

fantasticated1960

fanciful-

1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities vi. f. 125 The whiche .ij. thynges, it is euident & playne, that they be most absurde, and as moche agaynst all reason as can be.

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bbiii^v 8−12 is an Absurde nomber. For it betokeneth lesse then nought by 4.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 103 Fie, tis a fault to heauen, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd .

1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 5 That they had no other skill but onely to embalm, were absurd to imagine.

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 144 'Tis grave philosophy's absurdest dream, That Heav'n's intentions are not what they seem.

1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 36 It would be quite absurd if a dozen travellers in one party were to light a dozen separate fires, and cook a dozen separate meals.

1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. i. 10 The familiar, absurd thought came to her that she was perhaps a changeling or foster-child in the Bannerman family.

1956 J. R. Newman World of Math. III. xiv. 1934 A paradox is defined as a statement either seemingly or essentially absurd.

2006 Y. Lurie Tracking Meaning of Life iv. xxviii. 283 If he were to confess that the stamp collection gives meaning to his entire life, I might regard him as..someone who renders his life meaningful in an absurd fashion.

b. Of a person: acting in an incongruous, unreasonable, or illogical manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] > of persons

absurda1576

impertinent1613

goonish1921

a1576 E. Dering XXVII Lect. Epist. Hebrues (1577) xiv. 249 We know they are not ye church, but an absurde people.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes G iij [Stannyhurst] had neuer been praisd by Gabriel for his labour, if therein hee had not bin so famously absurd.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 281 Use also, such Persons, as affect the Businesse, wherin they are Employed..Froward and Absurd Men for Businesse that doth not well beare out it Selfe.

1671 T. Tenison Let. 6 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 556 Neither am I so absurd as to deny that there is one substance a greater disposition to their Ternarie of productions, then in an other.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 178 The next day after that Argument, S^r Arthur Haslerig..an absurd, bold man..preferr'd a Bill in the House of Commons.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. i. 161 Is not Education capable of..making us greatly Wise, or greatly Absurd?

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule ii. 23 ‘My dear fellow,’ said Ingram, at last, ‘don't be absurd.’

1919 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse xxxii. 510 That absurd girl of mine..came away from Paris by herself and hasn't been heard of since!

2003 M. Bragg Adventure of Eng. (2004) x. 114 Absurd situations and absurd circumstances and absurd people.

†2. Music. Inharmonious, jarring, out of tune. Cf. absurdity n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious

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anti-musical1824

ear-sore1859

tin-kettley1862

cacophonous1867

unnoted1867

callithumpian1886

tinny1904

crunchy1959

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [adjective] > out of tune

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distunedc1484

mistonedc1500

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false1597

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mistuneda1684

off-keya1918

sour1937

off-pitch1945

1617 Janua Linguarum 773 A harpe maketh not an absurd sound.

3. Causing amusement or derision; ridiculous, silly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous

gamelyOE

jape-worthyc1374

foolisha1500

ridiculous1533

ludibrious1570

laughable1600

mockablea1616

laughworthy1616

ludicral1656

derisible1657

absurd1716

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deridable1804

saugrenu1876

screwy1887

derisive1896

josh1908

nutty1915

derisory1923

dingbat1935

bonkers1961

joky1964

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 265 Even the..Empresse her selfe is oblig'd to comply..with these absurd Fashions.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. vii. 89 Flora, observing the Lowland ladies sneer at the comparison, produced some reasons to shew that it was not altogether so absurd .

1842 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 3 142 It is always a comfort to read of these absurd vapouring vainglorious Frenchmen obtaining a beating.

1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. ii. 56 The aunt-like lady..stood out amidst these levities in a black silk costume with a gold chain. She refused, it seemed, to make herself absurd.

1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 94 He recalls Auden walking down the Broad in Oxford in an absurd felt hat, while the girls sniggered at him.

2009 I. Crawford Catered Birthday Party ii. 57 All this hoopdedoo for a dog. Ridiculous. Absolutely absurd.

4. = absurdist adj. Cf. sense B. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [adjective] > of or relating to other doctrines and their adherents

protentional1931

Kierkegaardian1943

absurd1946

Sartrean1948

absurdist1951

pataphysical1961

1946 Kenyon Rev. 8 675 In L'Etranger the aridity has a more commonplace setting, and the author's failure to demonstrate the beauties of the ‘absurd’ life is more incidental.

1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 27 Aug. c5 So many of the conventions of absurd theatre have been co-opted by comedy now, it's tempting to think the avant-garde may be passé.

1997 J. Birkett & J. Kearns Guide French Lit. viii. 266 To a culture still committed to rationalist and religious absolutes and to notions of essential structures and unchanging truths, Absurd drama presented the liberating alternative of an Absurd universe.

2007 P. Codde Jewish Amer. Novel vi. 108 Her brush with the absurd has made her realize that the best defense against an absurd cosmos is an attitude of total indifference.

B. n.

1. With the.

a. That which is absurd; absurdity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun]

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impertinentness1645

irrationality1647

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farcicality1849

cockeyedness1858

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. f. 244^v And this doth Paule fittly and applyably enough, to witte, deducyng an Argument, from the reason which leadeth to the absurde.

1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxx. 20 I was afraid, if I stirred, I should either laugh or cry; so odd, in all this, was the mixture of the touching and the absurd.

1893 Engin. Mag. 5 657 The rotunda of the Government building is a miracle of the absurd in architecture.

1909 M. H. Dziewicki in J. Wyclif De Ente ii. i. v. 96 (margin) The absurd, being nothing, cannot even be thought by God.

1993 S. Milligan & A. Clare Depression & how to survive It (1994) Introd. 4 Milligan's manic punning, deliriously fertile imagination and anarchic sense of the absurd had fuelled the rise of The Goon Show.

2006 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 25/4 One psychotherapist treated her shame [after being raped] as verging on the absurd.

b. spec. Frequently with capital initial. The chaotic and purposeless nature of the universe, and the futility of human attempts to make sense of it. Cf. Theatre of the Absurd n. at theatre n. 3f(c), absurdism n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [noun] > absurdism or concept of the absurd

absurd1946

absurdism1948

1946 M. Lowry Let. 2 Jan. in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 520 These characters are in one way ‘Things’, as that French philosopher of the Absurd fellow has it.

1954 H. Read Anarchy & Order 13 He [sc. Albert Camus] suggested a philosophy of the absurd, and his subsequent work..has been an affirmation of ‘absurdism’ in politics and ethics, as well as in metaphysics.

1966 Listener 6 Oct. 515/1 Telly of the Absurd is a new experience.

1998 R. Poole in A. Hannay & G. D. Marino Cambr. Compan. Kierkegaard 56 The Absurd in Kierkegaard might best be seen as a category introduced to make livable something that is unthinkable.

†2. An unreasonable thing, act, or statement; an absurdity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of

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bollock1919

1610 Histrio-mastix ii. 264 Our heavenly poesie, That sacred off-spring from the braine of Jove, Thus to be mangled with prophane absurds.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 292 Of which Absurds, I'le make no more narration.

1710 L. Milbourne Moderate Cabal 42 They'd soon believe a Tribe inur'd to Blood, Might be by Priests, on Knight, or Lord, halloo'd; Would ne'er consider Possibilities, Nor what Absurds; from their Suppose, would rise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	absurd
释义	absurdadj.n. Brit. /əbˈsəːd/, /əbˈzəːd/, U.S. /əbˈsərd/, /æbˈsərd/, /əbˈzərd/, /æbˈzərd/ Forms: 1500s–1600s absurde, 1500s– absurd, 1600s obsurd. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French absurde; Latin absurdus. Etymology: < Middle French, French absurde (adjective) unreasonable, contrary to common sense (late 14th cent.; beginning of the 13th cent. in Old French as absorde ), (noun) (with indefinite article) something absurd, an absurdity (16th cent.), (with definite article) the absurd, absurdity (17th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin absurdus out-of-tune, discordant, awkward, uncouth, uncivilized, preposterous, ridiculous, inappropriate < ab- ab- prefix + surdus surd adj. With use as noun compare classical Latin absurda , neuter plural (Quintilian). Compare earlier absurdity n.Compare Occitan absurde , absurdo , Catalan absurd (1653), Spanish absurdo (c1400), Portuguese absurdo (1589), Italian assurdo (beginning of the 14th cent.). In sense B. 1b in philosophy after French l'absurde (1942 or earlier in this sense) in the writings of Albert Camus. A. adj. 1. a. Of a thing: against or without reason or propriety; incongruous, unreasonable, illogical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] impertinenta1425 royeta1522 absurd1531 preposterous1533 ridiculous1533 deaf?1541 monstrous?1549 fabulous1561 fanatical1598 fantastical1600 laughable1600 fantasticc1616 nonsense1621 arsy-versy1628 absonous1642 nonsensical1645 ridicule?1669 fancical1671 grotesque1747 rich1836 saugrenu1876 laughsome1884 cockeyed1894 hilarious1925 Rube Goldberg1928 whimsy-whamsy1931 Rube Goldbergian1933 cockamamie1941 fantasticated1960 fanciful- 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities vi. f. 125 The whiche .ij. thynges, it is euident & playne, that they be most absurde, and as moche agaynst all reason as can be. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bbiii^v 8−12 is an Absurde nomber. For it betokeneth lesse then nought by 4. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 103 Fie, tis a fault to heauen, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 5 That they had no other skill but onely to embalm, were absurd to imagine. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 144 'Tis grave philosophy's absurdest dream, That Heav'n's intentions are not what they seem. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 36 It would be quite absurd if a dozen travellers in one party were to light a dozen separate fires, and cook a dozen separate meals. 1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. i. 10 The familiar, absurd thought came to her that she was perhaps a changeling or foster-child in the Bannerman family. 1956 J. R. Newman World of Math. III. xiv. 1934 A paradox is defined as a statement either seemingly or essentially absurd. 2006 Y. Lurie Tracking Meaning of Life iv. xxviii. 283 If he were to confess that the stamp collection gives meaning to his entire life, I might regard him as..someone who renders his life meaningful in an absurd fashion. b. Of a person: acting in an incongruous, unreasonable, or illogical manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] > of persons absurda1576 impertinent1613 goonish1921 a1576 E. Dering XXVII Lect. Epist. Hebrues (1577) xiv. 249 We know they are not ye church, but an absurde people. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes G iij [Stannyhurst] had neuer been praisd by Gabriel for his labour, if therein hee had not bin so famously absurd. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 281 Use also, such Persons, as affect the Businesse, wherin they are Employed..Froward and Absurd Men for Businesse that doth not well beare out it Selfe. 1671 T. Tenison Let. 6 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 556 Neither am I so absurd as to deny that there is one substance a greater disposition to their Ternarie of productions, then in an other. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 178 The next day after that Argument, S^r Arthur Haslerig..an absurd, bold man..preferr'd a Bill in the House of Commons. 1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. i. 161 Is not Education capable of..making us greatly Wise, or greatly Absurd? 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule ii. 23 ‘My dear fellow,’ said Ingram, at last, ‘don't be absurd.’ 1919 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse xxxii. 510 That absurd girl of mine..came away from Paris by herself and hasn't been heard of since! 2003 M. Bragg Adventure of Eng. (2004) x. 114 Absurd situations and absurd circumstances and absurd people. †2. Music. Inharmonious, jarring, out of tune. Cf. absurdity n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > inharmonious or unmelodious discordanta1425 jarring1552 dissonant1573 tuneless1595 discordous1597 immelodious1601 discord1606 absurd1617 unharmoniousa1634 scrannel1638 unmelodious1665 disharmonious1683 disharmonical1688 unharmonic1694 dissonous1715 inharmonious1715 disconsonant1731 anti-musical1824 ear-sore1859 tin-kettley1862 cacophonous1867 unnoted1867 callithumpian1886 tinny1904 crunchy1959 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [adjective] > out of tune distonedc1400 distunedc1484 mistonedc1500 untuned1592 false1597 absurd1617 mistuneda1684 off-keya1918 sour1937 off-pitch1945 1617 Janua Linguarum 773 A harpe maketh not an absurd sound. 3. Causing amusement or derision; ridiculous, silly. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous gamelyOE jape-worthyc1374 foolisha1500 ridiculous1533 ludibrious1570 laughable1600 mockablea1616 laughworthy1616 ludicral1656 derisible1657 absurd1716 grotesque1747 tomfool1762 irrisible1767 ludicrous1782 deridable1804 saugrenu1876 screwy1887 derisive1896 josh1908 nutty1915 derisory1923 dingbat1935 bonkers1961 joky1964 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 265 Even the..Empresse her selfe is oblig'd to comply..with these absurd Fashions. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. vii. 89 Flora, observing the Lowland ladies sneer at the comparison, produced some reasons to shew that it was not altogether so absurd . View more context for this quotation 1842 W. M. Thackeray in Punch 3 142 It is always a comfort to read of these absurd vapouring vainglorious Frenchmen obtaining a beating. 1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. ii. 56 The aunt-like lady..stood out amidst these levities in a black silk costume with a gold chain. She refused, it seemed, to make herself absurd. 1988 M. Bradbury Unsent Lett. 94 He recalls Auden walking down the Broad in Oxford in an absurd felt hat, while the girls sniggered at him. 2009 I. Crawford Catered Birthday Party ii. 57 All this hoopdedoo for a dog. Ridiculous. Absolutely absurd. 4. = absurdist adj. Cf. sense B. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [adjective] > of or relating to other doctrines and their adherents protentional1931 Kierkegaardian1943 absurd1946 Sartrean1948 absurdist1951 pataphysical1961 1946 Kenyon Rev. 8 675 In L'Etranger the aridity has a more commonplace setting, and the author's failure to demonstrate the beauties of the ‘absurd’ life is more incidental. 1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 27 Aug. c5 So many of the conventions of absurd theatre have been co-opted by comedy now, it's tempting to think the avant-garde may be passé. 1997 J. Birkett & J. Kearns Guide French Lit. viii. 266 To a culture still committed to rationalist and religious absolutes and to notions of essential structures and unchanging truths, Absurd drama presented the liberating alternative of an Absurd universe. 2007 P. Codde Jewish Amer. Novel vi. 108 Her brush with the absurd has made her realize that the best defense against an absurd cosmos is an attitude of total indifference. B. n. 1. With the. a. That which is absurd; absurdity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. f. 244^v And this doth Paule fittly and applyably enough, to witte, deducyng an Argument, from the reason which leadeth to the absurde. 1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxx. 20 I was afraid, if I stirred, I should either laugh or cry; so odd, in all this, was the mixture of the touching and the absurd. 1893 Engin. Mag. 5 657 The rotunda of the Government building is a miracle of the absurd in architecture. 1909 M. H. Dziewicki in J. Wyclif De Ente ii. i. v. 96 (margin) The absurd, being nothing, cannot even be thought by God. 1993 S. Milligan & A. Clare Depression & how to survive It (1994) Introd. 4 Milligan's manic punning, deliriously fertile imagination and anarchic sense of the absurd had fuelled the rise of The Goon Show. 2006 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 25/4 One psychotherapist treated her shame [after being raped] as verging on the absurd. b. spec. Frequently with capital initial. The chaotic and purposeless nature of the universe, and the futility of human attempts to make sense of it. Cf. Theatre of the Absurd n. at theatre n. 3f(c), absurdism n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > existentialism > [noun] > absurdism or concept of the absurd absurd1946 absurdism1948 1946 M. Lowry Let. 2 Jan. in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 520 These characters are in one way ‘Things’, as that French philosopher of the Absurd fellow has it. 1954 H. Read Anarchy & Order 13 He [sc. Albert Camus] suggested a philosophy of the absurd, and his subsequent work..has been an affirmation of ‘absurdism’ in politics and ethics, as well as in metaphysics. 1966 Listener 6 Oct. 515/1 Telly of the Absurd is a new experience. 1998 R. Poole in A. Hannay & G. D. Marino Cambr. Compan. Kierkegaard 56 The Absurd in Kierkegaard might best be seen as a category introduced to make livable something that is unthinkable. †2. An unreasonable thing, act, or statement; an absurdity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 1610 Histrio-mastix ii. 264 Our heavenly poesie, That sacred off-spring from the braine of Jove, Thus to be mangled with prophane absurds. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 292 Of which Absurds, I'le make no more narration. 1710 L. Milbourne Moderate Cabal 42 They'd soon believe a Tribe inur'd to Blood, Might be by Priests, on Knight, or Lord, halloo'd; Would ne'er consider Possibilities, Nor what Absurds; from their Suppose, would rise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1531
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