单词 | actuability |
释义 | actuabilityn. Now rare. Capability of being acted upon or actuated. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > bringing into action > capability of being actuated actuability1682 1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 180 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. The Physical Idea of Body, Matter or Substance Material contains in it immediately of its own nature or intimate specifick Essence real Divisibility or Discerpibility, Impenetrability and mere Passivity or Actuability. 1682 H. More Answer Lett. Psychopyrist iv. 7 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (ed. 2) If he acknowledge a Spiritual substance distinct from the material, he will give Activity to the one, and Passivity or Actuability to the other. 1874 Catholic World May 828/2 Such a term must be called a real potency; the word real expressing the fact of its actuation, and the word potency expressing its ulterior actuability. 1922 Psyche July 89 What are the objective conditions to explain the validity of the ideal laws of my rationality, and to warrant their indefinite actuability in spite of the inadequacy of the empirical reality with them? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1682 |
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