单词 | non-apparent |
释义 | non-apparentn.adj. Something that is not apparent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not evident, latent potentiala1398 latentc1475 unevidentc1475 surreptitious1534 unmanifest1535 unapparent1554 unappearing1554 unmanifested1613 inevident1614 inapparenta1631 unobvious1643 immanifest1646 latitant1646 potentional1651 implicit1658 non-apparent1658 involute1669 unexposed1702 unostensible1766 1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras iv. 130 Fright'ned Melancholy seems to be A non-apparent in that Libertie. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxiv. 124 Dorcas no sooner found them, than she assembled three ready writers of the non-apparents. B. adj. Not apparent, not discernible. ΚΠ a1835 J. Macculloch Proofs & Illustr. Attributes God (1837) II. xxxiv. 306 We do not know whether it is dormant or acting, when it is non-apparent. 1880 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 199 Nature being at most a secondary manifestation of that which is now non-apparent and supernatural. 1931 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 4 332 The credit union as a non-commercial, co-operative institution requires the several subsidies mentioned—both the obvious and the nonapparent—for its very existence. 1989 R. Waterfield Before Eureka (BNC) 48 Hence the nutritional analogy mentioned just above is central to Anaxagoras's thought, since it seems to provide a basis for inferring that things have many different non-apparent constituents. 2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 254 Nonapparent technology controls the heating and air conditioning and turns off the lights after everybody has left a room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1658 |
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