单词 | operancy |
释义 | operancyn. The quality or fact of being operant; operation. 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 c1811–26 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 584 [Jeremy] Taylor..is always too shy of this ‘Grace of God’: he never..admits it any separate and per se operancy. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 511/2 Function..implying by that word an immediate organic operancy. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 127 When all intellection and all operancy of will seem to be suspended. 1959 Ethics 69 223/1 Of course, Rotenstreich is wary lest, by affirming the operancy of laws in history, he deprive man of his freedom and his transcendence of history. 1981 J. May Many-colored Land ii. v. 139 If we discover that you possess them, we have the technology to bring them up to operancy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1811 |
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