单词 | peirastically |
释义 | peirasticallyadv. rare (Philosophy in later use). By experiment, tentatively. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [adverb] tentatively1588 tastingly1598 peirastically1817 experimentally1862 venturingly1884 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt II. xviii. 57 Proceeding pedetentim, and opening the subject peirastically. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle vii. 128 After having duly deliberated on two full-sized casts of the Uranian and Pandemian Venus..and on three alabaster figures..he proceeded, peirastically, to open his fire. 1849 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythol. III. 395/1 With reference to the first, some distinguished dramatic, narrative, and mixed dialogues.., others investigating and instructing dialogues, and again such as investigated gymnastically (maieutically or peirastically). 1985 Philos. Q. 35 3 Aristotle cites Socrates as one who argues without having knowledge of the subject under discussion—..‘peirastically’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1817 |
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