单词 | prothetic |
释义 | protheticadj. 1. Medicine. = prosthetic adj. 2. rare.See also the etymology above. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > prosthesis > [adjective] prothetic1722 prosthetic1872 1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. I. v. 373 This prothetic Part of Chirurgery, which teaches to supply what is deficient in Nature, by the Help of Art. 1862 Lancet 19 July 59/2 In his pride of his pathological peculiarities, he altogether rejects the use of any dental prothetic piece. 1899 Nature 23 Nov. 77/1 The introduction of a section upon prothetic appliances. 2000 Cardiovascular Surg. 8 507/2 Left femoro-popliteal prothetic bypass. 2. That is posited before; antecedent. ΚΠ c1818–19 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 231 One and the One must be carefully distinguished. The Monad is Prothetic—one Thetic. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 219 In hope to know the great unknowable, The all prothetic, universal I. 1865 J. A. Heraud Shakspere II. ii. 183 The ‘airy nothing’ is the prothetic tuition, or what Plato has designated the unity prior to position, which..transfers itself as a pure or à priori motive to the Will, and thus commences a series of rational and intellectual acts. 1958 R. Hall in Philos. Rev. 67 65 By ‘prothetic’ uses I mean (without implying that they can always be clearly demarcated) uses in reasoning or talking about a piece of reasoning. 1999 Compar. Lit. 51 317 If it did, the need for a system based on a transcendent, prothetic will would be removed. 3. Grammar. Prefixed, usually at the beginning of a word. Cf. prosthetic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > prefixed or relating to prefixes prepositive1583 prefixed1633 prosthetic1738 preformative1821 prothetic1833 prefixional1858 prefixal1864 prefixial1893 pre-mutative1899 1833 S. Kenrick in Philol. Museum 2 348 That the ω in the longer form is merely prothetic and no part of the root. 1888 Athenæum 24 Nov. 704/2 In II. 156 Prof. Sterrett has again misunderstood this prothetic iota; read ἰσϕαγεντι. 1900 H. Harrison in Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 6 514/2 Wrayton... Its prothetic w is due to false analogy. 1968 W. S. Allen Vox Graeca i. 41 Where the latter [languages related to Greek] have initial r, Greek shows a so-called ‘prothetic’ vowel before it (thus ἐρυθρος). 2002 Y. Matras Romani iv. 66 A genuinely phonological prothetic development would be the insertion of palatal /j/ in positions preceding front vowels /i/ and /e/, and of labial /v/ preceding back vowels /o/ and /u/. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1722 |
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