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单词 third person
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third 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.]
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