| 单词 | heteronomous |
| 释义 | heteronomous, a.|-ˈɒnəməs|
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
1. Subject to different laws, involving different principles.
1824De Quincey Templars' Dial. Wks. IV. 254 If two inconsistent principles of valuation be employed, then the table will be vicious because heteronomous [erron. -onymous].
2. Biol. Having different laws or modes of growth; applied to parts or members differentiated from the same primitive type.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 104 Arthropoda. Animals consisting of a series of more or less heteronomous segments. Ibid. 78 The development of wings and the differentiation of the body into three great heteronomous divisions, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 238 The limitation of the number of the appendages..concurrently with the greater development of heteronomous metameres.
3. Subject to an external law: opp. to autonomous.
a1871G. Grote Eth. Fragm. (1876) ii. 47 The will is..in a certain sense autonomous, not heteronomous. 1894Forum (U.S.) July 572 Man has been..a thrall, owning obedience to a law conceived to be external..and other than the expression of his own nature. In a word he has been heteronomous. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. vi. 221 These are conditioned sound changes, also called dependent or heteronomous because they appear to depend upon the extraneous influence of their phonetic surroundings.
Hence heteˈronomously adv.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Heteronomously, in a heteronomous manner. 1948J. L. Adams tr. Tillich's Protestant Era iii. 46 Religion, if it acts heteronomously, has ceased to be the substance and life-blood of a culture and has become itself a section of it. 1966J. A. Serra Mod. Genetics II. xii. 118 In a few cases, however, the colour developed heteronomously; in such cases the host influenced the colour of the implanted eye. |
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