| 单词 | ocular witness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasocular witness a. Designating a person who has seen a thing happening or being done, as ocular witness (cf. eyewitness n.); based on or derived from what has been seen, as ocular testimony. In early use as postmodifier. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > eyewitness eyewitness1539 ocular witness1570 titlark1800 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > a witness, testifier > who saw something witness?c1225 eyewitness1539 ocular witness1570 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > evidence given, testimony > piece of > provided by eyewitness eyewitness1607 ocular testimony1670 1570 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 10 I make..my master Jeffery Finche and Robert Rowland our parson..to be overseers oculars of my Will. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iii. sig. D3v You shall now, as well be the Ocular as the Eare-witnesse. 1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. D4 To bee an Occuler witnesse-bearer of what I Speake. 1670 I. Walton Life J. Donne 44 in Lives He gave an ocular testimony of the strictness and regularity of [his life]. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xx. 313 Depending on the ocular testimony and remembrance of the witnesses. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian (1830) viii. 126 Determined that, by no possibility whatever, would he be an ocular witness of the shame of his house. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ii. vii. 93 Perhaps she is not particularly anxious to be an ocular witness of that ceremony which she has certainly speeded with her prayers. 1930 E. Pound Cantos (1972) xxv. 115 On the faith of several ocular witnesses. < as lemmas |
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