单词 | third person |
释义 | > as lemmasthird person 8. Grammar. A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or someone or something spoken of; each of the three distinctions (first person n. 2a, second person, and third person respectively) within this category. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > person persona1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 12 If þe nominatif case & þe verbe discordiþ in persone & in noumbre, þanne þe resoun is in congrue. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) i. 259 (MED) She lerned..The declynacions, þe personys, the modys, þe tens. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 27 Euery substantyue is onely of the thyrde parson. 1585 tr. P. de La Ramée Lat. Gram. ii. i. 62 A Person is a speciall end of a verbe. 1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts (1669) 27 Every Vocative case is of the second Person. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 97 The Quakers..speak to one another in the second Person and singular Number. 1764 W. Primatt Accentus Redivivi 111 The Dorians penacuted verbs ending ον,..that is, provided they were third persons plural. 1845 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 62/1 In many Languages the person is necessarily expressed by a pronoun. This is universally the case in the Chinese,..the verb being alike in all the persons. 1886 Cent. Mag. Oct. 898 The pronoun of the first or second person, used datively. 1951 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory i. 17 In addressing me, a small boy, he used the plural of the second person. 1987 Multilingua 6 313 The Germanic languages inherited from Indo-European a system of representing the person and number of the subject in the verb. third person d. Grammar. In third person: see person n. 8. Also in third declension, third conjugation, and in names of tenses, as third future, third preterite, where the reference is to a conventional order of enumeration adopted by grammarians. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 93 In verbes of theyr thyrde conjugation I fynde a litell more difficultie. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. T1 He had..forgotten in speaking of him selfe to vse the third person. 1764 W. Primatt Accentus Redivivi 111 Provided they were third persons plural. 1848 J. T. White Xenophon's Anab. (1872) ii. iv. §5 Notes 116 Sometimes..the third future is used, instead of the common future, to point out more forcibly all but immediate occurrence of some future action. 1857 M. Williams Sanskrit Gram. §415 Fortunately..the third preterite occurs but rarely in the better specimens of Hindú composition. third person a. Additional to and distinct from two others already known or mentioned. third person (in Law) = third party n. †third place, a place which is neutral ground to two persons (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > that which is third > [adjective] > in addition to and distinct from two others thirdc1290 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > settlement of dispute, arbitration > [noun] > one who arbitrates > with casting vote odd man1445 third person1709 third party1817 thirdsman1818 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > [noun] > person involved in proceedings > besides two primarily concerned third person1709 third party1817 thirdsman1818 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] > absence of definite stance neutralitya1513 neutralism1579 neutralizing1643 third place1757 non-committal1833 non-committalism1838 fence-ridinga1859 non-partisanship1875 middle of the road1891 fence-sitting1904 value freedom1959 c1290 Beket 415 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 118 Þat þridde þing ȝeot mest of alle and sonest in wrathþe hem brouȝte. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 3 And þe þrid, if he be moost obedient to God and to His lawe. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 17v Incorporall and immateriall essences cannot be coupled in the same third matter. 1709 E. Ward tr. Diverting Wks. 189 Any thing is easily believ'd that is to the Disreputation of a third Person. 1757 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 31 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2277 I could neither visit, nor be visited by, the ministers of those two Crowns; but we met every day, or dined at third places. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 444 The clause..extends..to third persons only; not to the persons conveying, or those to whom lands are conveyed to uses. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xvii. 318 Martin Lightfoot..was as a third hand and foot to him all day long. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe iv. §122. 133 There can be no third thing besides body and void. [Cf. tertium quid n.] < as lemmas |
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