单词 | partialize |
释义 | partializev. 1. a. intransitive. To take a part or side; to favour one party or side unduly or unjustly. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)] to stand in1555 to fall ina1568 partialize1592 side1609 party1656 to take (also hold) sides1700 (to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852 1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. K iij Thus stood I ballanc'd equallie precize..Till world and pleasure made me partialize. 1598 T. Rogers Celestiall Elegies sig. D5v Let not the world thinke I doe partialize, In that I doe extoll my vncles fame. a1621 Countess of Pembroke To Angell Spirit in Coll. Wks. (1998) I. 111 Truth I invoke (who scorne else where to move Or here in ought my blood should partialize). 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 15 But yet fully to clear it, that I partialize not in my plea in behalf of his Highness. 1932–41 G. P. Rawick Amer. Slave (1972) V. iv. 191 When my maw was in a tantrum, my step-paw wouldn't partialize with her. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > side with [verb (transitive)] > divide into parties or make partisan partialize1597 faction1656 split1712 partify1716 factionalize1888 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 120 I make a vowe, Such neighbour neerenes to our sacred bloud Should nothing priuiledge him nor partialize The vnstooping firmenesse of my vpright soule. View more context for this quotation 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 317 His hate will partialize his Opinion. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. ii. 642 The fact..may have influenced, perverted, and partialized, the perceptions presented by it. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > incomplete [verb (intransitive)] > concern oneself with part only partialize1594 1594 Zepheria vi. sig. B3v My tears, my sighs all haue I summ'd in thee, Conceit the total, do not partialize. 3. transitive. To make partial as opposed to universal; to break up into parts. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > make incomplete [verb (transitive)] > make partial partialize1871 1871 T. M. Post Ministrant Church 9 To limit Christianity geographically, violates its nature. It is ubiquitous in its reach, or it is nothing. To partialize the universal, introduces a fatal solecism into its nature. 1882 Chicago Advance 13 Apr. To confine, to partialize, is to destroy. 1956 R. Hazelton God's Way with Man iii. 65 Paul in some passages seems to externalize sin or at least to partialize it; sin, he writes, lies in wait, works in us or dwells in us, as if it came from beyond. 1977 A. Keith-Lucas & C. W. Sanford Group Child Care 70 Unlike some staff members, she cannot partialize these roles or even play one role at a time. 1999 S. A. Fine & S. F. Cronshaw Functional Job Anal. iv. 34 A conscious and deliberate effort is made in FJA to avoid using language that would partialize workers, see them only in their instrumental form to be analyzed in terms of factors, traits, or the like. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1592 |
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