单词 | navigatory |
释义 | navigatoryadj. Of or relating to navigation; that allows of navigation. Also (in early use): †nautical (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [adjective] shippish1530 marine1551 navigable1597 marinal1620 navigatory1650 classical1656 navicular1656 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) 86 A needle..placed at free range in the navigatory Compasse [L. pixidi nautoriae]. 1870 Overland Monthly Apr. 372 She had two or three captains, several pilots,..and a mixed crew..; yet their navigatory skill was only tentative. 1959 M. E. Marty Short Hist. Christianity 252 Profiting from the advances in navigatory arts in the time of the modern world's dawn, we can take the mariner's compass to find the measure of the faith. 1961 M. T. Florinsky in McGraw-Hill Encycl. Russia & Soviet Union 479 The total length of navigatory network in the basin is 11, 000 mi. 1991 J. Laver Gift of Speech 103 The scale of the navigatory and coordinatory problem of physiological control that the brain has somehow to deal with in producing speech is immense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1650 |
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