单词 | unrelative |
释义 | unrelativeadj. Not relative (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > non-relation > [adjective] frenne1556 unlinked1587 untouching1602 positive1609 unrespectless1614 unrelating1655 inconnexive1660 unaccessory1664 unconcerned1668 extraneous1671 unrelative1700 unkindred1701 unrelated1701 unconnected1745 irrelate1845 unrelational1863 unakin1864 inconsequent1869 relationless1878 irrelated1886 disrelated1893 1700 J. Sergeant Transnatural Philos. Pref. sig. C6v This Notion of an Idea seem'd to me to be a meer Hirco-Ceruus, a Positive (or Unrelative) Relative. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) I. ii. 41 The events..appear to us very often..single, and un-relative, if I may use such an expression for want of a better in English. 1757 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2217 À propos (an expression which is commonly used to introduce whatever is unrelative to it). 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 62 If the mutations were too sudden and unrelative. 1856 Spectator 2 Feb. (Suppl.) 147/1 A sudden passage to some very remote and unrelative key. 1865 W. H. Gillespie Argument Moral Attributes God 71 All Justice is necessarily relative—to its objects, its own objects. Un-relative Justice would be a chimera. 1916 Psychol. Rev. 23 481 This is the one unrelative standard by which all vital subjects may be judged. 1996 J. Fletcher in G. F. McLean Ethics at Crossroads I. ii. 32 They are all three unlike all phenomena because they, and they alone, are universals and unrelative; absolute. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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