单词 | resolutory |
释义 | resolutoryadj. 1. Having the effect of resolving, clarifying, or explaining something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective] explanativea1500 expositive1535 resolutory1567 interpretative1569 expounding1571 illustrating1589 explanatory1600 explicative1602 explicatory1606 expository1628 clarifying1630 illustrative1643 luciferous1648 omnilucent1651 explaining?1683 illustratorya1734 elucidatory1774 elucidative1822 irradiativea1834 expositional1845 resolvent1856 enucleating1862 expositionary1882 luminant1891 interpreting1892 clarificatory1945 FYI1973 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast ii. xiv. f. 152 In this session ye shal finde, that it was no finall or resolutory sentence that the Senatours gaue against Dioscorus, but a declaration of theire mynde and resolution. c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 19v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) This tabill resolutory of perfyt figuris with color noittit to the lectoris. 1669 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. (1685) 24 Out of these distinctions, I shall form several propositions, resolutory, as I hope, to my subject in hand. 1957 Music & Lett. 38 68 The short cadential appoggiaturas sound restless instead of resolutory. 1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. xiv. 1036 In reading aloud, the resolutory effect of the final clause is often pointed by intonation. 2. Law. = resolutive adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [adjective] > parts of > specific clauses or provisions conditional1552 modal1590 resolutivea1623 contingent1710 resolutory1818 1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 10 If an agreement bear, that the obligation shall have present operation and effect, but cease upon a certain event, that is a subsequent and resolutory condition; and the conditional obligation is called a resolutory one. c1826 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XVII. 53/1 Legislators..have guided that class of people [sc. proprietors] by forfeits and resolutory clauses. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 384 Tradition, coupled with a Resolutory condition, operates two transfers of ownership. 1931 Yale Law Jrnl. 40 892 It is..commonly admitted that pacta commissoria,..although they primarily operate as a resolutory condition, may through the consent of the parties have the legal effect of a suspensive condition. 1978 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 27 312 A contract of sale containing a resolutory condition revesting the ownership of the goods in the seller in the event of the buyer's failure to pay. 2005 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 28 Jan. 9 The nonpayment of the purchase price is a resolutory condition that extinguishes the transaction existing for a time and discharges the obligations created thereunder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1567 |
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