| 单词 |
desynonymize |
| 释义 |
desynonymize, v.|diːsɪˈnɒnɪmaɪz|
[f. de- II. 1 + synonym + -ize.]
1. trans. To differentiate in meaning words previously synonymous.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. iv. (1870) 42 In all languages there exists an instinct of growth..working unconsciously to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. i. (1873) 220 His [Coleridge's] word to desynonymise..is a truly valuable one, as designating a process very common in the history of language. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. ix. 205 There had been a rapid tendency to desynonymize the words ‘bishop’ and ‘presbyter’.
b. To free from synonyms.
1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. 169 To form an idea of the extent to which our language has been desynonymized.
2. intr. To cease to be synonymous.
a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 547 Remarks on the tendency of words to desynonymize.
Hence desyˈnonymized ppl. a., -izing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1833J. C. Hare in Philolog. Museum II. 224 From the desynonymizing tendency before spoken of. 1851Trench Study of Words vi. (1869) 225 The process of ‘desynonymizing’. 1884Farrar Luke 359 ἀνάθεµα is only a desynonymised form of the same word [ἀνάθηµα]. |
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