单词 | satisfactive |
释义 | satisfactiveadj.n. A. adj. 1. Satisfactory; sufficient, adequate; that satisfies certain requirements. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > adequate for the case or conditions fulfilling1340 satisfactory1576 proportionate1614 adequatea1617 satisfactive1646 equal1697 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xi. 334 By a finall and satisfactive discernment of faith, we lay the last and particular effects upon the first and generall cause of all things. View more context for this quotation 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 805 Of the Reason and Signification of these neither any of the Ancients nor Moderns give any Satisfactive Solutions or Explications. 1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 89 What Is to the eye more cheerful, to the heart More satisfactive, than to look abroad, And from the window see the reaper..put his sickle to the wheat? 1863 Boston Investigator 12 Aug. 109/4 A man of keen susceptibility, who has been..wandering without a rational, or even satisfactive guide. 1985 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 24 Aug. 1440/2 Perhaps ideology should be conceived of as a set of satisfactive rules which an agent adopts to limit his own feasible set. 2004 W. Spohn in P. Machamer & G. Wolters Sci., Values, & Objectivity ix. 184 My positive satisfactive states should be valued, and the negative ones disvalued, by everyone, not only by me. 2. That involves or is concerned with reparation or making amends. Cf. satisfaction n. 2a. Now rare.Only in or with reference to the works of Jeremy Bentham. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [adjective] satisfactoryc1443 expiatory1548 satisfactorious1561 amendsful1605 piacular1606 atoning1609 expiative1641 ilastical1649 expiatorious1651 satisfactional1681 lustratory1738 piaculous1780 expiating1793 satisfactive1829 expiational1874 lustrative1875 piaculative1919 1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codification Petitions iv. 79 The two remedies which wrong in every shape calls for: namely, the satisfactive and the punitive. 1830 J. Bentham Official Aptitude Maximized Pref. p. xxv (note) Punishment, together with the several other remedies, which the nature of things admits of:—namely, satisfactive, suppressive, and preventive. 1963 M. P. Mack Jeremy Bentham ii. vi. 264 Legal offences were ills, warts, cancers, sores, eruptions, 'diseases in the body politic', with four classes of remedies: preventive, suppressive, satisfactive, and penal. Satisfaction, contentment, gratification. Also: compensation; an instance of this. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1849 Christian Advocate & Jrnl. 22 Nov. 185/2 I have made promiscuous notes of the use and construction of certain prepositions. For my own satisfactive, I have made the following arrangement of them. 1891 Cent. Dict. Satisfactive, an act of satisfaction; compensation; requital; amends. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1646 |
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