单词 | processive |
释义 | † processiveadj.1 Obsolete. rare. Of the nature of a legal process or summons (see process n. 5b); serving to initiate legal proceedings. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [adjective] processive1622 processal1645 processual1851 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 242 They fell to Law about it, whose bills, and answers, together with other writings, processiue, justificatiue,..and infinite other the like..came to [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). processiveadj.2 Having the quality of proceeding or going forward; progressive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [adjective] progressive?c1450 progressional1570 advancing1575 forward1603 progredient1650 onward1674 processive1691 on-driving1884 propagating1971 1691 T. Heyrick Submarine Voy. i. 15 By chance it was a solemn Day Neptune made a Processive Round; Rode in's Triumphal Chariot o'r the Sea With Pride of all the Ocean's Beauties crownd. ?1770 H. Downman Elegy wrote under Gallows 12 Hence birth-night balls, and coronations proud.., Hence the Lord May'r's and his processive crowd, And hapless thieves whose destiny is nigh. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 378 There can be no galaxy in poetry, because it is language,—ergo processive—ergo every the smallest star must be seen singly. 1866 Reader 20 Oct. 880 Recognise in its processive and changing phases the varied animal forms, rising higher and still higher in the complexity of their structure up to the advent of Man himself. 1973 R. Ellmann Golden Codgers i. 15 I think some idea of the space between birth and death as processive, either an exfoliation or a sharpening definition, will have to persist. 2001 Nature 6 Dec. 597/2 Each 8-nanometre step is coupled to the hydrolysis of one molecule of the nucleotide ATP... This type of movement is known as ‘processive’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11622adj.21691 |
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