单词 | prepollency |
释义 | † prepollencyn. Obsolete. The quality or fact of being prepollent; predominance, preponderance. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [noun] predominy?a1475 weight1569 predomination1592 predominance1595 predominancy1598 ascendant1607 predominion1607 prepotency1623 overweight1626 overbearance1639 preponderation1650 prepollency1663 preponderancy1689 the transcendent1691 overpoise1697 preponderance1704 prepollence1730 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxvii. 365 Nor are the instances only in Scripture, whence the prepollency of one to many may be confirmed. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Præpollency, of very great force, strength, excellency, or virtue. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xvi. 576 Such things as destroy the prepollency of an acid Salt in the Blood. 1742 H. Coventry Philemon to Hydaspes 91 Osiris is the whole active Force of the Universe, confined as having a Prepollency of good in its effects. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. 497 The prepollency of good over evil. 1849 Amer. Whig Rev. Sept. 296/2 This..necessary prepollency of the popular power in every government partaking of a free form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1663 |
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