单词 | operance |
释义 | operancen. Now rare. = operancy n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] workOE operationa1393 workmanshipc1400 actionc1405 act?a1425 workinga1425 activityc1485 executiona1530 play1548 workfulness1570 inworking1587 acting1605 agency1606 operancea1625 transaction1663 operancyc1811 outworking1846 mediacy1854 functioning1856 a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) i. iii. 163 The elements that..doe effect rare issues by their operance . View more context for this quotation a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 344 An agency antecedent in order of operance. 1840 J. H. Green Vital Dynamics 23 The same power is at work under different conditions of operance. 1891 J. Todhunter Poison-flower i. 9 He would explore The principle of life, track generation Through earth's protean forms, watch it in operance [etc.]. 1994 Diacritics 24 145 The Western discursive operation..undermines the operance of kinship and the Dreaming in the domain of attraction and desire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1625 |
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