| 单词 |
illustrative |
| 释义 |
illustrative, a.|ɪˈlʌstrətɪv|
[f. L. illustrāt-, ppl. stem of illustrāre to illustrate + -ive.]
1. Serving or tending to illustrate, make clear or elucidate; explanatory, elucidatory; affording an illustration or example; exemplificatory. Const. of.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §45 Unspeakable mysteries in the Scriptures are often delivered in a vulgar and illustrative way. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. vi. 260 Till some fortuitous circumstance makes the information dart into the mind with illustrative force. 1828Cole Scarborough Collector 1 The following paragraphs, illustrative of the accompanying etching. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. ii. (1880) 22 The life of Palissy..is eminently illustrative of his epoch. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 805 Lest ye miss a point illustrative. 1869Tyndall Notes Lect. Light §110 Taking, as an illustrative case, the passage from air into water.
†2. Shining, illuminative. Obs. rare.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xii. 320 Bright and Illustrative, as Pliny said but now. |
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