| 单词 | sense-history |
| 释义 | > as lemmassense-history sense-history n. (a) the history of the development of the sense or meaning of a word; (b) Philosophy the aggregate of sense experiences or sense fields experienced by an individual. ΚΠ 1891 Sc. Rev. Oct. 472 The greater part of the words..have, in many instances, presented considerable difficulty in respect to their sense-history. 1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought x. 362 Let us call the whole series of sensible fields which an observer O senses in the course of his life, O's sense-history. 1933 O.E.D. Suppl. Pref. p. v The aim of this Dictionary is to present..the words..with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. 1954 A. J. Ayer Philos. Ess. iv. 95 The occurrence, within a given sense-history, of a series of sense-fields. 1984 French Rev. 58 221 By the advanced level, students are certainly ready for the next step, which is consulting the sense history of words they look up in the dictionary. 1990 Human Stud. 13 201 A sense-history of embedded or retentionally held senses (Sinne), that..passively motivates current acts. < as lemmas |
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