单词 | occasioning |
释义 | occasioningn. Now rare. The action of occasion v. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causing purchase1490 occasionc1515 occasioning1547 educing1592 inducing1626 causation1646 causing1651 induction1660 evocation1775 eductiona1806 educement1839 superinduction1842 1547 R. Record Vrinal of Physick f. 61 The vrin of a man is good for dyuerse dyseasys of the wombe and bowels, and namely for the collyke: bycause that partely w[i]t[h] prouokyng of vomyte, and partely by occasyonynge of segys, hyt expelleth strongly all noysum humours. 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 144 Mr Broughton and Mr Young were both to be sentenced, the one for makinge the disturbance, and the other for occasioning of it. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 188 An easy Excise..upon such Commodities, as naturally tend to the occasioning of Pride, Idleness, Luxury. 1992 M. Jefferson Criminal Law (BNC) 352 The occasioning of actual bodily harm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). occasioningadj. Chiefly Philosophy. That occasions something or someone; usually in occasioning causes. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > causing > occasioning contributary1567 contributive1583 contributory1594 occasional1646 occasionative1655 occasionate1658 occasioning1817 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 50 He admits five agents, or occasioning causes. 1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xii. 527 The occasioning causes of birth and death are often trivial. 1934 Philos. Rev. 43 56 The functioning of thoughts and of bodily motions as occasioning causes, is regular,..a genuine correspondence of fitness. 1993 S. M. Nadler Causation in Early Mod. Philos. 71 One must make room for the les esprits in addition to les corps as ‘particular causes’—occasioning causes—of the motions of bodies moved by God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1547adj.1817 |
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