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单词 polypragmatical
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polypragmaticaladj.

Forms: 1500s–1600s polypragmaticall, 1600s polupragmaticall.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πολυπράγματος , -ical suffix.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek πολυπράγματος busy about many things, meddlesome, officious (see polypragmatic adj.) + -ical suffix. Compare slightly later polypragmatic adj.
Obsolete.
Overly interested in the business of others; meddlesome, interfering. Cf. polypragmatic adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [adjective] > officious
busy1340
pragmatical1593
officious1596
polypragmatical1597
superfluous1598
pragmaticc1612
superserviceablea1616
polypragmatic1616
stickling1642
over-officious1647
polypragmonetic1693
managinga1715
busybodied1798
busybodyish1851
pantopragmatic1860
polypragmonic1866
polypragmosynic1886
1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe sig. B2v To the polypragmaticall..Puppie, Thomas Nashe.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iii. 158 Aboue all things they hated such polupragmaticall Inquisitors.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 329 This idle Gamster with a blind bone out of his jugling box, with the activity of a polypragmaticall finger, can..undoe many an hopefull heire.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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