metricaladj.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɛtrᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˈmɛtrək(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English metricalle, 1500s–1600s metricall, 1600s– metrical.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin metricus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < classical Latin metricus metric adj.¹ + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix. Compare post-classical Latin metricalis (1532 in Luther), Middle French metrical (c1429).

I. Senses relating to poetic metre.

1. Of, relating to, or concerned with metre, esp. in poetry; occurring or composed in metre or verse.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective]

metrical?a1475

measureda1586

numbery1605

metric1637

metred1711

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 183 Of the rewles of feete metricalle [L. pedum metricorum],..of dialog metricalle [L. de metrico dialogo].

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 152 She vttered, sundrye metricall and ryming speaches.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. 59 Their Quantities, their Rests, their Ceasures metricall.

1623 (title) A new and merrie prognostication: being a metrical satire, supposititiously assigned to Will Summers.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Poetry, metrical composition; the art or practice of writing poems.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) I. v. 181 The old metrical romances.

1802 J. Ritson (title) Ancient Engleish metrical romanceës.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 73 (note) The productions of Lord Thurlow indicate a considerable share of metrical energy.

1855 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 456 I have adopted a sort of simple, ballad tone, and tried to make my prose as metrical as possible.

1897 Mod. Lang. Notes 12 79 This regularity of arrangement holds only for the half line, the metrical unit.

1923 G. Saintsbury Hist. Eng. Prosody (ed. 2) I. ii. i. 90 The metrical romances present by far the largest section..of earlier fourteenth-century verse-literature.

1946 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1943–6 59 What neither Sievers nor any other writers..have ever pointed out, is that the ‘five types’ are language patterns not metrical patterns.

1963 R. Quirk in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 159 Metrical units in variation.

1987 J. Uglow George Eliot ix. 147 She had begun by feeling that the most appropriate form for Silas's inner drama would be metrical, but eventually chose prose.

II. Senses relating to measurement.

2. = metric adj.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective]

metena1400

metrical1650

mensural1651

decimal1794

metrological1834

mensurational1880

quantificational1939

1650 J. Wyberd Tactometria 6 These kinde of metricall lines (or linear numbers).

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 192 All kind of Arithmetical and Metrical Operations.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 70 Its metrical extent, or its extent as compared with that of the body or with some of its parts.

1879 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 8 111 As an illustration of the metrical character of earthworks, we may refer to the East Everley works in Wiltshire.

1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. ix. 50 Most of the propositions in Euclid's Elements are metrical, and it is not easy to find among them an example of a purely descriptive theorem.

1972 R. J. Wilson Introd. Graph Theory i. 2 The only information we have lost concerns ‘metrical’ properties (length of road, straightness of wire, etc.).

Compounds

metrical geometry n. Mathematics (now rare perh. obsolete) = metric geometry n. at metric n.¹ and adj.¹ Compounds.

ΚΠ

1858 A. Cayley in Math. Papers (1889) II. 592 We are then in the region of pure descriptive geometry: we pass out of it into metrical geometry by fixing upon a conic of the figure as a standard of reference and calling it the Absolute.

1897 B. Russell Ess. Found. Geom. 149 Metrical Geometry..may be defined as the science which deals with the comparison and relations of spatial magnitudes.

1922 Jrnl. Philos. 19 396 Three fairly distinct types of geometrical system: projective geometry, descriptive geometry, and metrical geometry.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

metricaladj.²

Brit.

/ˈmɛtrᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˈmɛtrək(ə)l/

Origin: A borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Etymons: French métrique , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < French métrique metric adj.² + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix.

1. = metric adj.² Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > serving as a unit of measurement > standard (of units) > specific standard

Scots1632

Scotch1638

Rhineland1646

metrical1797

imperial1814

international1857

metric1862

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 209/1 The ensuing year; when the French republic will have immortalized the first years of its establishment, by the adoption of a Metrical System.

1816 P. Kelly Metrol. Introd. 16 It was computed in France, that in three generations, their metrical system would be fully established.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. 361 (heading) Comparison of the Metrical with the Common Measures.

1895 Nature 11 Apr. 562/2 His firm's trade was mainly British, but no objection had been made to metrical measurements by British customers.

1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 688 (title) The metrical system of weights and measures.

†2. Having a length of one metre. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Metrical, having the diameter of a French meter.

†3. Ophthalmology. Designating a system of grading lenses in which the basic unit is the dioptre; (also, of a lens) graded according to this system. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. viii. 301 The trial glasses..are arranged according to what is known as the ‘metrical system’.

1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. viii. 301 (margin) Metrical lenses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metrical
释义	metricaladj.¹ Brit. /ˈmɛtrᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈmɛtrək(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English metricalle, 1500s–1600s metricall, 1600s– metrical. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin metricus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < classical Latin metricus metric adj.¹ + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix. Compare post-classical Latin metricalis (1532 in Luther), Middle French metrical (c1429). I. Senses relating to poetic metre. 1. Of, relating to, or concerned with metre, esp. in poetry; occurring or composed in metre or verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] metrical?a1475 measureda1586 numbery1605 metric1637 metred1711 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 183 Of the rewles of feete metricalle [L. pedum metricorum],..of dialog metricalle [L. de metrico dialogo]. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 152 She vttered, sundrye metricall and ryming speaches. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. 59 Their Quantities, their Rests, their Ceasures metricall. 1623 (title) A new and merrie prognostication: being a metrical satire, supposititiously assigned to Will Summers. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Poetry, metrical composition; the art or practice of writing poems. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) I. v. 181 The old metrical romances. 1802 J. Ritson (title) Ancient Engleish metrical romanceës. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 73 (note) The productions of Lord Thurlow indicate a considerable share of metrical energy. 1855 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 456 I have adopted a sort of simple, ballad tone, and tried to make my prose as metrical as possible. 1897 Mod. Lang. Notes 12 79 This regularity of arrangement holds only for the half line, the metrical unit. 1923 G. Saintsbury Hist. Eng. Prosody (ed. 2) I. ii. i. 90 The metrical romances present by far the largest section..of earlier fourteenth-century verse-literature. 1946 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1943–6 59 What neither Sievers nor any other writers..have ever pointed out, is that the ‘five types’ are language patterns not metrical patterns. 1963 R. Quirk in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 159 Metrical units in variation. 1987 J. Uglow George Eliot ix. 147 She had begun by feeling that the most appropriate form for Silas's inner drama would be metrical, but eventually chose prose. II. Senses relating to measurement. 2. = metric adj.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] metena1400 metrical1650 mensural1651 decimal1794 metrological1834 mensurational1880 quantificational1939 1650 J. Wyberd Tactometria 6 These kinde of metricall lines (or linear numbers). 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 192 All kind of Arithmetical and Metrical Operations. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 70 Its metrical extent, or its extent as compared with that of the body or with some of its parts. 1879 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 8 111 As an illustration of the metrical character of earthworks, we may refer to the East Everley works in Wiltshire. 1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. ix. 50 Most of the propositions in Euclid's Elements are metrical, and it is not easy to find among them an example of a purely descriptive theorem. 1972 R. J. Wilson Introd. Graph Theory i. 2 The only information we have lost concerns ‘metrical’ properties (length of road, straightness of wire, etc.). Compounds metrical geometry n. Mathematics (now rare perh. obsolete) = metric geometry n. at metric n.¹ and adj.¹ Compounds. ΚΠ 1858 A. Cayley in Math. Papers (1889) II. 592 We are then in the region of pure descriptive geometry: we pass out of it into metrical geometry by fixing upon a conic of the figure as a standard of reference and calling it the Absolute. 1897 B. Russell Ess. Found. Geom. 149 Metrical Geometry..may be defined as the science which deals with the comparison and relations of spatial magnitudes. 1922 Jrnl. Philos. 19 396 Three fairly distinct types of geometrical system: projective geometry, descriptive geometry, and metrical geometry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). metricaladj.² Brit. /ˈmɛtrᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈmɛtrək(ə)l/ Origin: A borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Etymons: French métrique , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < French métrique metric adj.² + -al suffix¹; compare -ical suffix. 1. = metric adj.² Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > serving as a unit of measurement > standard (of units) > specific standard Scots1632 Scotch1638 Rhineland1646 metrical1797 imperial1814 international1857 metric1862 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 209/1 The ensuing year; when the French republic will have immortalized the first years of its establishment, by the adoption of a Metrical System. 1816 P. Kelly Metrol. Introd. 16 It was computed in France, that in three generations, their metrical system would be fully established. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. 361 (heading) Comparison of the Metrical with the Common Measures. 1895 Nature 11 Apr. 562/2 His firm's trade was mainly British, but no objection had been made to metrical measurements by British customers. 1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 688 (title) The metrical system of weights and measures. †2. Having a length of one metre. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Metrical, having the diameter of a French meter. †3. Ophthalmology. Designating a system of grading lenses in which the basic unit is the dioptre; (also, of a lens) graded according to this system. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. viii. 301 The trial glasses..are arranged according to what is known as the ‘metrical system’. 1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. viii. 301 (margin) Metrical lenses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : -metricalcomb. form < adj.¹?a1475adj.²1797 see also
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