单词 | palpability |
释义 | palpabilityn. The quality of being palpable.In quot. 1841 concrete: a palpable person. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [noun] palpability1601 touchableness1620 tactility1660 tangibility1665 touch1684 tangibleness1727 tactuality1858 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object > cognizable by the senses or phenomenon sensiblea1500 phenomenona1639 phenomen1644 palpability1841 effect1856 tangible1890 interphenomenon1944 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 342 Concerning the non visibility and palpability of spirits. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xvi. 56 The exteriority and palpability of the exercise of their affections. 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 67 in A. Pope Wks. II He it was, that first found out the Palpability of Colours. a1770 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. (1773) IV. 405 A curious dispute, whether the bodies of the righteous after the resurrection should be solid, or thinner than the air. Gregory was for the palpability, and Eutychius for the impalpability. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iii. 78 The primary rude attempts to give palpability ‘to the Model in the master's mind’. 1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) 77 In the shape of any Viola, or Julia, or other such flattering palpability. 1871 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Oct. 471 The word Eternal has less of particularity and palpability for the imagination. 1944 Isis 35 333/1 The palpability or corporeality of darkness (showing darkness to be a created thing) is thought to be confirmed by Moses. 1998 A. Chaudhuri Freedom Song (1999) 74 They loved the freedom and heat of performing on the streets,..the proximity and palpability of the houses that bordered their performance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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