单词 | subdichotomize |
释义 | subdichotomizev. Now rare. transitive. To dichotomize (something) further; to divide into further or subordinate parts, groups, or categories. Also occasionally: to divide (an undivided whole); to dichotomize.Cf. subdivide v., esp. sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > subdivide subdivide?a1425 subdivisionatea1586 subdichotomize1606 suppart1620 under-part1631 subsect1654 1606 H. Clapham Man. Bibles Doctr. 82 Some haue diuided and subdiuided, dichotomizd and subdichotomizd the kinds of sacrifice, labouring so to put euery kind into his own place. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋235 Subdichotomise it by the severe incision knife of rationall argumentations. 1851 Bibliotheca Sacra Jan. 146 Does any one pretend to find in this ordinary speech an implication that the soul is dichotomized and subdichotomized into ten or twenty ‘conflicting agents’? 1898 J. M. Russell Seven Ages of Creation (1902) i. 216 Likewise, is every born family of the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve thus dichotomized and subdichotomized into the homo-form and manner of brothers and sisters. 1900 Gospel in All Lands June 259/1 God saves a man. He does not sub-dichotomize him and save his soul while his mind and body are left unsanctified. 1958 W. J. Ong Ramus, Method, & Decay of Dialogue p. xxiii The life is further dichotomized and subdichotomized to make a neat spatial display. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1606 |
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