单词 | stative |
释义 | stativeadj.n. A. adj. 1. ΚΠ 1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 81 Macrobius saith, there are foure kindes of publike holy-dayes.., Stative, Conceptive, [etc.]. 1640 J. Selden Briefe Disc. Power Peeres & Comons 2 In the Rolles of Henry the 3. It [sc. Generale Placitum apud London] is not stative, but summoned by Proclamation. 1766 Andrews's Remarkable News from Stars sig. B The Fixed or Stative [Holy Days], are they which notwithstanding they fall upon divers Days of the Week, yet they do not change. b. Established in one place; having a permanent situation; stationary. Now rare. stative camp n. [after classical Latin castra statīva] Roman History a permanent military camp. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition > through lack of movement stationary1628 unfleetinga1640 unebbing1652 stative1661 fixeda1699 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Stative, pitched or set, as a Fortress or pitched Camp; also standing. 1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost vii. 227 Stations, Spheres;..not that they stand still, but that the Stars are there stative, fixt, and move round with them. 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty II. xix. 89 At a place called Plumpton, a large Roman station (or stative camp) runs a quarter of a mile, on the right. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iv. 70 They are stative forts, whereas this was only an occasional encampment. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlv. 252 Rome was the proper sphere of his business and duty,..the stative camp of the warrior-nation. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xx. 233 Last all, to legions' stative camp, arrive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie vi. 47 It incur'd this Absurditie, that the Soules of the Damned shall not perish, but stand as well as the Stative Angels. 1738 S. Boyse Transl. & Poems 50 So stative Jove commands His Monster-killing Bow to mortal hands. 3. Grammar. Esp. of a verb or verb form: that expresses a state or condition rather than an action. Cf. statistical adj. 5.Originally spec. with reference to Hebrew verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > expressing state or condition static1846 statistical1846 stative1874 statal1924 1874 A. B. Davidson Introd. Hebrew Gram. 47 The term stative verbs, i.e. verbs of state, is used by some grammarians. 1903 W. H. Stapleton Compar. Handbk. Congo Lang. x. 204 The Stative ‘Form’ of this verb is kalwa, to be torn. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. vii. 202 The stative verb expresses ‘the state of being in a certain condition’. 1970 Language 46 830 English adjectives, much like English verbs, seem to divide into stative and active ones. 1998 Word 49 7 Note that in this central sense, have is always stative, and from a formal perspective cannot be passivized. 2005 E. Zobel in A. Adelaar & N. P. Himmelmann Austronesian Langs. Asia & Madagascar xxii. 640 Stative roots are intransitive roots that only appear in stative aspect. B. n. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > statute statutec1300 statutec1300 statutec1300 statute lawa1500 stat.1592 scite1656 stativea1772 a1772 tr. Husbullhookum Abidulla Caun Rep. (BL: IOR/H/629) 223 They will annually pay the Rent thereof according to the Statives in the King's Books. 2. Grammar. A stative verb, word, or sentence.Originally spec. with reference to Hebrew verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > verbs with specific aspects frequentative1530 inchoative1530 inceptive1612 reiterative1805 iterative1853 continuative1870 stative1874 finite1924 1874 S. R. Driver Hebrew Tenses §11. 12 To the verbs already cited may be added..the following, which are selected from the list given by Böttcher..: by this grammarian they are not inaptly termed verba stativa or ‘statives’. 1913 C. T. Wood & H. C. O. Lanchester Hebrew Gram. 67 Tenses—Perfect Qal—Statives. 1973 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 18 103 In order to explain the possessive function of statives and the limitations of this function in Sechelt, it is necessary to consider a cross-section of occurrences of this verbal aspect and to define its semantic range. 2011 E. E. Taylan & A. Aksu-Koç in T. Mortelmans et al. In Mood for Mood 110 These adverbs..change achievements, activities and statives into accomplishments. Derivatives ˈstatively adv. in a stative manner; (Grammar) so as to express a state or condition. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adverb] > other spec. impersonallya1504 activelyc1525 transitivelyc1525 participially1632 statively1889 1889 D. Eaton tr. F. Delitzsch Biblical Comm. Psalms III. 174 What the result of this judgment of the peoples will be, is stated by the statively used verb. 1976 J. S. Gruber Lexical Struct. Syntax & Semantics i. vi. 162 John remains in the room in order to see who arrives. In the..sentence above we have remain being used statively, treating John as an inanimate object. 2002 N. Reid in J. Newman Ling. Sitting, Standing & Lying x. 245 [In a Northern Australian language] squatting, kneeling or any stance between lying and standing can be described statively as ‘sitting’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1631 |
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