单词 | predictively |
释义 | predictivelyadv. In a predictive manner; as regards or by way of prediction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adverb] propheticallyc1429 prognostically1610 propheticly1613 predictively1650 1650 J. Lightfoot Temple xxxvi. 217 Some conceive that Christ speaketh there predictively, foretelling that they should slay Zachary the son of Baruch in the Temple. 1737 tr. C. de Bruyn Trav. into Muscovy I. xxiv. 119 The inhabitants are very scrupulously cautious in advising all travellers that are to cross the lake, by no means whatsoever to call it by the name of Oser... The Envoy..called it so as he went over it, without any fear of what the inhabitants had so predictively threatened him with. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxi. 270 ‘It was Miss Edwards who did that, I know,’ said Miss Monflathers predictively. 1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) vii Anticipating the day in which we live, and predictively speaking of Christians alone. 1978 B. Chapman Clarke's Anal. Archaeol. (ed. 2) x. 442 In this way Kansky has ‘predictively’ simulated the railway in Sicily in 1908. 2004 J. Heal in D. McManus Wittgenstein & Scepticism vii. 182 We find it useful predictively to treat them as if they satisfied the norms and infer some of their (candidate) beliefs and intentions from others. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1650 |
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