| 单词 | paradoxal |
| 释义 | paraˈdoxal, a. Obs. in gen. use.
[f. L. paradox-us adj. (see paradox) + -al1.]
= paradoxical.
† paradoxal sailing, ‘sailing on the spiral a ship would describe if she continued sailing round the world on any course except east and west, or north and south’ (Editor's note in Davis' Wks. (Hakl. Soc.) 239).
1570Dee Math. Pref. d iv b, Hable to vnderstand..The Proportionall, and Paradoxall Compasses (of me Inuented, for our two Moscouy Master Pilotes, at the request of the Company). 1594J. Davis (title) The Sea-mans Secrets..wherein is taught the 3 kindes of Sailing, Horizontall, Paradoxall, and Sayling vpon a great Circle. Ibid. ii. Wks. (Hakl. Soc.) 315 By which motion lines are described neyther circular nor straight, but concurred or winding lines, and are therefore called paradoxall, because it is beyond opinion that such lines should be described by plaine horizontall motion. 1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 331 Their paradoxall, pragmaticall, and stratagemicall doctrine. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. (1851) 338 If it suffic'd som years past to convince and satisfie the uningag'd of other Nations..though then held paradoxal. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 678 As Paradoxal as any may please to think it. 1888Nature 19 July 288/2 On paradoxal deafness..in which the patient is deaf to words uttered in the silence of a room, but not in a noisy street. |
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