单词 | self-active |
释义 | self-activeadj. Capable of or exhibiting independent action, without external cause or influence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating independently or spontaneously unprovoked1585 automatical1586 automatic1599 self-acting1605 self-active1642 self-acted1651 spontaneous1664 authentic1834 semi-automatic1890 shoot-from-the-hip1967 the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > self-determining or determined self-willing1571 self-acting1605 self-active1642 self-relying1648 self-acted1651 self-determined1653 self-determining1655 self-reliant1834 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F4v Some souls at least are self-active Withouten body having Energie. 1692 R. Bentley Matter & Motion cannot Think 17 Intrinsecally moved by an immaterial self-active Substance. 1750 Funeral of Infidelity 20 Man became a living Soul, or self active Person. 1783 C. M. Graham Treat. Immutability of Moral Truth iv. 176 The divine Will is self-active. 1845 Ohio Observer (Hudson, Ohio) 22 Jan. 1/3 In the tree there is a vital, self-active power, which can work, feed, and send out the extensions of growth, as long as it lives. 1906 G. H. Howison Let. 9 Feb. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 776 The self-active unity of consciousness. 1936 Psychol. Monogr. 47 i. 17 It was customary for psychologists to conceive some ‘power of the mind’..and by naming it to regard the power as fixed and self-active. 2006 Brit. Jrnl. Educ. Stud. 54 160 Teachers..start from the assumption that their students are self-active and (potentially) independent human beings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1642 |
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