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单词 self-substantial
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self-substantialadj.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfsəbˈstanʃl/, /ˌsɛlfsəbˈstɑːnʃl/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfsəbˈstæn(t)ʃ(ə)l/
Forms: see self- prefix and substantial adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, substantial adj.
Etymology: < self- prefix + substantial adj.
1. Derived from oneself or one's own substance. Obsolete. rare.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets i. sig. B Thou..Feed'st thy lights flame with selfe substantiall fewell.
2. Originally: having existence by virtue of intrinsic nature, independently of any other cause; self-existent. In later use also: existing independently of external factors or relations; self-contained; self-sustaining.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > self-existent
self-being1599
self-subsisting1608
self-essential1610
self-substantial1630
self-subsistent1646
self-existing1647
self-essentiated1653
self-existent1663
self-living1668
self-standing1871
1630 tr. S. Jerome Certaine Sel. Epist. 22 I beseech your Holynesse..by the selfe-substantiall Trinity [L. per homousiam trinitatem].
1830 tr. Dionysius of Alexandria in Trial of Unitarians 103 One only Virgin, the daughter of life, brought forth the living and self-substantial Word [Gk. τὸν ζῶντα Λόγον καὶ ἐνυπόστατον], the uncreated Creator.
1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 321 The act of ingestion is the act that tends unto the self-substantial, independent life.
1926 R. M. MacIver Mod. State iv. xiv. 451 It [sc. the state] is no self-substantial entity whose end is its own fulfilment, existing in its own right and for its own welfare.
1981 E. Gans Origin Lang. i. 1 One wonders how such problems could arise at all were ‘representation’ indeed a self-substantial category.
2004 Mod. Philol. 102 167 A number of works might be perceived as something short of entities in their own right... Just as The Siege never occurs as a self-substantial work, one might consider textual nodes, clumps of items known largely or exclusively in a common circulation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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