单词 | obstant |
释义 | obstantadj. Originally Scottish. rare after 16th cent. Opposing, resisting, adverse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > resisting rebel1340 resisting?a1425 repugnantc1443 rebela1450 resistentc1450 obstant1486 resistanta1513 reluctant1604 renitent1604 resistive1605 resistful1614 outstandingc1650 withstanding1711 unamenable1771 recalcitrating1870 1486 in W. Fraser Stirlings of Keir (1858) 256 Gif it happinnys..me..to faylȝhe or be obstant in the fowfylling and completing of the thingis..abown writtin. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. ix. 99 That nother scheild nor obstant plait of steyll This cativis breist hes helpit neuir a deill. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 17 I se the repugnant To Venus Quene, and to hir court obstant. 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake l. 588 But with irrefragable force and might Made obstant lets give waie unto his flight. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Obstant, resisting. 1967 Mind 76 287 It is unfortunate perhaps that the word ‘obstance’ has not achieved a wider currency. But I think Campbell Garnett would agree that a substance, or at any rate a macroscopic physical substance, is essentially an obstant entity. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adverb] > resistingly resistingly1548 obstantly1562 resistantly1612 resistively1884 1562 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xxx. 302 If any person..be thereof lawfully convicted..and will obstantly stand in the same. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1486 |
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