单词 | noun substantive |
释义 | noun substantiven. Grammar. 1. A word used as the name or designation of a person, place, or thing. Cf. noun n. 1 and substantive adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] nameOE nouna1398 substantivea1398 noun substantivec1450 descriptum1918 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 9 A noun essencial is substantif oþer..adiectiue; Of substantiue, he is abstractum oþir concretum oþir mene.] c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 32 How knowyste a noun substantyf? c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 14 (MED) A noun substantyf..may be vnderstond by hymselfe and ys declyned in Latyn wt on article. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) v. 24 A nowne substantyve Might stand wythout helpe of an adjectyve. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 24 Nownes substantives have thre chefe accidentes, gender, nombre, and parson. c1554 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 29 Thai that hes ane nowne substantiue to thare antecedens. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. ix. 133 If the childe but knowe his word to be like any of the examples of a Nown Substantiue,..he knoweth it to be a Nown Substantiue. 1696 W. Lorimer Remarks Goodwins Disc. ix. 179 The one halfe of it, the Nown Substantive, Law, is expresly in Scripture. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. ii. 59 You have trope, figure, and metaphor, as plenty as noun-substantives. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. iii. 27 There is no talking with noun substantives only. 1843 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1844) 1 63 The institution of nouns substantive, would probably be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. 1895 H. G. Wells Time Machine v. 44 I felt like a school-master amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command. 1900 Speaker 23 June 374/1 Sir is a noun substantive, masculine. 1970 I. Michael Eng. Grammatical Categories II. ix. 316 The use of Name for the noun substantive is frequent in the term proper name, even in the seventeenth century. 2001 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 7 Oct. 1 Her poetry disrupts the expected patterns of sequence; it is elliptical and rife with dashes and capitalized noun substantives. 2. figurative. Something likened to a noun substantive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > independent or self-existence > one who has independent or self-existence self-essence1548 beer1587 self-being1587 noun substantive1592 independent1675 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E3 He sweares by nothing but by Saint Tyborne, and makes Newgate a Nowne Substantiue, whereto all his other words are but Adiectiues. 1636 T. Heywood Challenge for Beautie iv. sig. Gv Bona. Was she seene? Cent. Yes seene, and felt, and heard, and understood, We found her a Noune Substantive. 1661 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 100 To make the best agreement he can for the first yeare; after which he hopes your sonne will be a noune substantive. 1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft (1721) iv. 215 The true Church of England..is a Noun-substantive that can stand by it self. 1741 in W. W. Wilkins Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 267 So I by myself can Noun Substantive stand, Impose on my Owners, and save my own Land. 1900 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 141 The Major-General no doubt was, so to speak, the noun-substantive; and the Commissioners the noun-adjective. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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