liminaryadj.

Brit.

/ˈlɪmᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈlɪməˌnɛri/

Forms: 1600s liminarie, 1600s– liminary.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French liminaire; Latin līmināris.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French liminaire (of a letter) prefatory (1548 in epitre liminaire ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin līmināris of or belonging to the lintel, in post-classical Latin also preliminary, initial (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine) < līmin- , līmen threshold (see limen n.) + -āris -ary suffix².

Introductory; preparatory; (of a letter, etc.) prefatory; spec.: †(of syphilis) in the initial stage (in which the disease typically involves the skin), primary.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > preliminary or introductory

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proemial1447

isagogicala1529

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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 629 I neede but the liminarie epistle [Fr. espitre liminaire] of a Germane to store me with allegations.

1663 J. Heath Flagellum 188 As the grand and Liminary work to Oliver's Regality.

1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) 31 The infection being yet seated in the outward part that was first assaulted, namely, the jaw, the lips, groin, tets, &c. may properly be called a Liminary Pox, because it's set as it were in the threshold or entrance of the Body.

1717 D. Turner Syphilis ii. 82 Dr. Harvy, as I remember, makes four of them [sc. stages of the Great Pox], calling the first Liminary, the second a Frontier, the third a Mid-way, and the fourth a thorough Pox.

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 715 Instantly Mr Wastle, to put an end to all contention, proposed to read it himself, and this being agreed to by acclamation, Buller of Brazennose insisted, with rather an undue vehemence, on a liminary bumper.

1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Apr. 308 Dr G. Harvey, who noticed the disease, distinguished it under the name of a liminary or middle pox.

1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 518/2 With its nice derangement of dedications,—its epistles liminary and ultimate.

1951 J. E. Gillet tr. B. de Torres Naharro Propalladia III. 29 The letter, with some modifications, was printed with the ‘Propalladia’ as a liminary epistle.

1991 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Mar. 4/3 He lays out with great clarity the sorts of prefatory matter that normally occur in Renaissance Latin books: dedicatory epistles, letters ad lectorem, liminary poems and the like.

2009 A. A. MacDonald et al. Christian Humanism 135 In a liminary letter to Nussler, Gregorius Richterus, rector of Gorlitz, links Opitz and Spinaeus.

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

单词	liminary
释义	liminaryadj. Brit. /ˈlɪmᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈlɪməˌnɛri/ Forms: 1600s liminarie, 1600s– liminary. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French liminaire; Latin līmināris. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French liminaire (of a letter) prefatory (1548 in epitre liminaire ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin līmināris of or belonging to the lintel, in post-classical Latin also preliminary, initial (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine) < līmin- , līmen threshold (see limen n.) + -āris -ary suffix². Introductory; preparatory; (of a letter, etc.) prefatory; spec.: †(of syphilis) in the initial stage (in which the disease typically involves the skin), primary. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > preliminary or introductory preparatory1442 proemial1447 isagogicala1529 liminary1603 inducing1605 prelusive1605 preambling1608 prefatory?c1622 ushering1628 preambulary1630 inductory1632 introductive1638 prelusory1638 preambulous1646 preambular1647 preludial1647 preliminary1650 prefacive1651 preludious1651 introitory1652 prodromous1652 introductory1660 superliminary1675 exordiala1682 prodrome1682 prodromal1716 premisory1844 prefatiala1848 inductive1868 prolusory1868 inleading1889 prodromic1891 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 629 I neede but the liminarie epistle [Fr. espitre liminaire] of a Germane to store me with allegations. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum 188 As the grand and Liminary work to Oliver's Regality. 1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) 31 The infection being yet seated in the outward part that was first assaulted, namely, the jaw, the lips, groin, tets, &c. may properly be called a Liminary Pox, because it's set as it were in the threshold or entrance of the Body. 1717 D. Turner Syphilis ii. 82 Dr. Harvy, as I remember, makes four of them [sc. stages of the Great Pox], calling the first Liminary, the second a Frontier, the third a Mid-way, and the fourth a thorough Pox. 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 715 Instantly Mr Wastle, to put an end to all contention, proposed to read it himself, and this being agreed to by acclamation, Buller of Brazennose insisted, with rather an undue vehemence, on a liminary bumper. 1826 Edinb. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Apr. 308 Dr G. Harvey, who noticed the disease, distinguished it under the name of a liminary or middle pox. 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 518/2 With its nice derangement of dedications,—its epistles liminary and ultimate. 1951 J. E. Gillet tr. B. de Torres Naharro Propalladia III. 29 The letter, with some modifications, was printed with the ‘Propalladia’ as a liminary epistle. 1991 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Mar. 4/3 He lays out with great clarity the sorts of prefatory matter that normally occur in Renaissance Latin books: dedicatory epistles, letters ad lectorem, liminary poems and the like. 2009 A. A. MacDonald et al. Christian Humanism 135 In a liminary letter to Nussler, Gregorius Richterus, rector of Gorlitz, links Opitz and Spinaeus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1603
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