单词 | quidditative |
释义 | † ˈquidditative, a. Obs. [f. quiddit-y + -ative. See also quiddative.] 1. Pertaining to the quiddity or essence of a thing.
1650Charleton Paradoxes 9 The quidditative and peculiarly expresse causes of all those admirable effects of the Loadstone. 1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 220 The quidditative notion of an Element. 2. Full of equivocations, quirky.
1611Cotgr., Quidditatif, quidditatiue, doubtfull, obscure, full of quirkes, fraught with quiddities. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. i. ix. 31 A weak and easily penetrable hedge of some quidditative Cautions. Hence † ˈquidditatively adv.
c1600Timon iv. iii. (1842) 66 The moone may bee taken..either specificatiuely, or quidditatiuely, or superficially, or catapodially. |

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