单词 | predesignation |
释义 | predesignationn. 1. The action of predesignating or (occasionally) predesigning (something); prior designation, appointment, or specification; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > predestination foresettinga1300 destiningc1300 ordainingc1350 ordinationc1450 pre-ordinance1486 destinacy1490 predestination?1503 pre-ordination1527 foreordinance1530 predefinition?1548 fore-appointing1589 destination1598 ordainment1605 foreordination1620 predeterminationa1628 fatalitya1631 destinating1633 predesignationa1641 foreordaining1667 preordainmenta1847 pre-appointment1850 pre-election1860 foreordainment1879 providentialism1927 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > specific definition or description > beforehand predesignation1701 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [noun] > elements of the philosophy of C. S. Peirce thirdnessc1875 predesignation1883 tychism1892 interpretantc1905 icona1914 qualisigna1914 Peirce's Law1934 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 26 For us men,..according to Promise, Prediction, Pre-designation, God to Man, in the fulnesse of time, came downe from heaven. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 36 Here is an express..prædesignation of them. 1883 C. S. Peirce The. Prob. Infer. in Stud. Logic viii. 162 Suppose we were to draw our inferences without the predesignation of the character P [for which the class had been sampled]; then we might in every case find some recondite character in which those instances would all agree. 1949 Population Index 15 210 A miniature census..using an area sample based on pre-designation of dwelling units in specified small regions. 1966 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 11 Nov. 30/1 Under the President's predesignation of authority, the trio must agree before any command can be given to the Army, Navy or Air Force. 1996 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Sept. 3 At her appointments there was no predesignation which physician she would see. 2. Logic. A sign of quantity attached to a term or proposition. Cf. predesignate adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > quantity > sign of predesignation1847 1847 W. Hamilton Let. to De Morgan 43 Logicians..have referred the quantifying predesignations plurimi, and the like, to the most opposite heads. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic v. 122 Having no sign or predesignation of Quantity affixed to it. 1924 W. E. Johnson Logic III. 3 The predesignation ‘a certain’ best indicates this separateness of presentment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1641 |
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