单词 | remotive |
释义 | remotiveadj.ΚΠ c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica i. 13 Takynge our pryncyple of those yeris & seasons passed of olde, as moche as may be done in maters so remotyue [L. in tam remotis propter antiquitatem rebus], we shal wryte of mannes generacion. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 251 For they ennorish not nor bryng vp any cataile, nor they ete no maner of fish forasmoch as they be passyng remotive of situation from the see coost. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective] > able to be dative1461 removable1526 remotivec1550 deposable1643 amovable1667 dismissible1824 c1550 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1866) 18 84 Having no Vicaridge endowed but served by a Chapleyne remotive. 1828 R. Dally Bognor, Arundel & Littlehampton Guide iv. 57 Before the appropriation in 1347, the vicar was remotive and received a stipend from the rector. 1834 Gentleman's Mag. June 597 The benefice was formerly vested in the College,..which did not appoint a perpetual Vicar, but only a clericus conductitius, or curate remotive. 1848 S. Hibbert-Ware Anc. Parish Church Manch. Introd. 29/2 They alleged that, in bygone days,..sacred offices had been filled by stipendiary and remotive chaplains. 3. Botany. Of germination: characterized by removal of the episperm from the sheath of the cotyledon. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > sprouting or germinating > of other types of germination admotive1819 remotive1819 pregermination1898 1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 69 We may reduce to three principal heads the different modifications of germination in Endorhizæ; 1. Immotive. 2. Admotive. 3. Remotive [Fr. rémotive]. 1973 Phytochemistry 12 2429 Germination—remotive/admotive. 4. Chiefly Logic. Negative; spec. designating a compound proposition formed of negative statements. Now rare. ΚΠ 1828 S. T. Bloomfield Recensio Synoptica IV. 61 Proposition two-fold, 1st, negative, i.e. remotive: The men are not drunk... 2dly, positive or affirmative: This is done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled. 1871 T. M. Lindsay tr. F. Ueberweg Syst. Logic v. §123 457 The dilemma, in the stricter and special sense, is an inference of the Second Figure, with an hypothetico-disjunctive premise..and with a remotive premise. 1887 J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 2) ii. i. 56 Copulative propositions are formed by a direct combination of simple affirmative propositions;..Remotive propositions are formed by a similar combination of negatives; e.g., No P is either Q or R. 1918 J. J. Toohey Elem. Handbk. Logic iv. 34 A remotive proposition is a negative proposition in which there are several subjects or several predicates connected by ‘neither..nor’ or equivalent particles. 1965 Philos. Q. 15 244 This account of the dual function, remotive and constitutive, of the name ‘nothing’ is redolent of the definition given in the Ontology of Leśniewski of the quasi-name ‘non-object’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1487 |
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