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单词 quaesitum
释义

quaesitumn.

Brit. /kwiːˈsʌɪtəm/, /kwʌɪˈsiːtəm/, U.S. /kwaɪˈsid(ə)m/, /kwiˈsaɪd(ə)m/
Inflections: Plural quaesita.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin quaesītum, quaesītus.
Etymology: < classical Latin quaesītum, neuter singular of quaesītus, past participle of quaerere to seek (see queer v.1). Compare slightly later quaesite n. and quesited adj.Classical Latin quaesītum was used as noun to denote a revenue; quaesītus was used as adjective in the senses ‘premeditated, deliberate’ and ‘elaborate’.
That which is sought; the answer to a problem.
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1645 T. Urquhart Trissotetras sig. O2 Mensurator, is that, whereby the illatitious terme is compared, or measured with the maine quæsitum.
1654 J. Newton Institutio Mathematica 325 The Quaesita or things sought are three.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Equation Indeed, as the Data, or Quæsita differ, there arises a Difference in the Reduction of the Equation found.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. Introd. So as to proceed intirely from the Data to the Quæsita, from things known to such as are unknown.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. ii. vi. 176 A series of careful and exact measures in every different state of the datum and quæsitum.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic viii. 229 In the Analytic order the Conclusion would be more properly called the Quaesitum.
1883 Sci. Cycl. II. 143/2 We take it without thought as a datum what they hunted as a quæsitum.
1919 Philos. Rev. 28 401 When we have a syllogism in Barbara, we compare a quæsitum with a datum, with respect to a middle term.
1996 Internat. Labour Rev. 135 344 Upon the amount of investment depends..the amount of employment which is the quaesitum of the whole book.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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