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单词 metaphysical
释义 meta·phys·i·cal
\-zə̇kəl, -zēk-\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin metaphysicalis, from metaphysica metaphysics + Latin -alis -al
1. : of, relating to, or based on metaphysics
 < metaphysical truth >
 < the metaphysical assumption >
 < idealism which still remained metaphysical although no longer explicitly theistic — Emil Brunner >
2.
 a. : of or relating to what is conceived as transcendent, supersensible, or transcendental
  < fleeing from experience to a metaphysical realm — John Dewey >
 b. : preternatural
  < fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd — Shakespeare >
 c. archaic : imaginary, fanciful
  < those metaphysical persons … John Doe and Richard Roe — Sir Walter Scott >
3.
 a. : showing an inclination toward or addition to metaphysics
  < a metaphysical man >
  < his metaphysical talent — Harriet B. Stowe >
 b. : highly abstract or abstruse
  < metaphysical reasoning >
  < the prohibition of metaphysical questions — Social Research >
4.
 a. : synthetic a priori
  < a metaphysical judgment >
 b. : neither analytic nor subject to empirical verification
  < the view … that metaphysical statements are not, as scientific statements are, descriptions of real features of fact, but, at best, expressions of attitudes about which rational argument is impossible — W.H.Walsh >
5. : of, relating to, or producing metaphysical poetry
 < metaphysical school >
 < metaphysical poem >
 < metaphysical poet >
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