单词 | privatively |
释义 | privativelyadv. 1. By the removal of something; negatively; by way of negation or absence. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adverb] > negatively privativelyc1475 in the negative1635 negatively1789 c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 181 Moral vice or synne..stondiþ aȝens moral vertu priuativeli, as bi priuing or forbering þe dede of vertu in it silf. 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke 105 Neither is the iudgement by the vrine euer infallible..diuers impediments both positiuely and priuatiuely forestalling his right estimate. 1659 H. More Immortality of Soul i. xi. §7. 81 This Indifferency of the Matter to Motion or Rest may be understood two wayes: Either privatively, that is to say, That it has not any reall or active propension to Rest, more then to Motion, or vice versâ. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 312 In this Disease..the Stomach is affected privatively, not positively. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 301 To be in pain, is not Privatively, but contrarily opposed to being happy. 1710 D. Whitby Disc. Five Points (1735) iv. i. §5. 312 The Devils..being determined to do Evil in the General, and that only privatively for want of Motive or Inducement to do otherwise. 1774 J. Stafford Scripture-doctrine Sin & Grace Considered (ed. 2) vii. 113 In all, negatively and privatively, Death. Positively, it is called lust, corruption, flesh, concupiscence, sin, the old man, &c. 1844 N. Brit. Rev. Nov. 60 When the associated French chemists gave it the systematic appellation of oxygen, they fixed that of azote upon nitrogen, in order to intimate that it is privatively destructive of animal organization. 1871 C. P. Krauth Conservative Reformation & its Theol. 386 Privatively or negatively original sin shows itself, first in this, that all human beings are born without the fear of God. 1939 Philos. Rev. 48 399 The pragmatic argument..justifies their use in support of an interpretation of concepts counter to that given by the pragmatists, provided the interpretation is not given privatively. 1993 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 51 273/2 Kant had no way of doing that, and the things in themselves are described only privatively, as that to which the forms of the mind do not apply. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adverb] > exclusively privatively1612 exclusively1650 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxx. 57/2 The power of Coynage then..not being so priuatiuely in the King, but Boroughes, Bishops, & Earles enioyed it. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 267 Assuring yourself there is no one man in the world worthy to enjoy you privatively. 1672 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. Court of Session (1826) II. 643 Exporting, importing, and retailing, are the privileges of the royal burghs privatively to all others. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1475 |
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