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形容詞

purpositive (comparative more purpositive, superlative most purpositive)

1. Rare form of purposive
   • 1823, Robert Morrison, A Grammar of the English Language for the Use of the Anglo-Chinese College, Macao, China: Peter Perring Thoms, page 73:

     Future tense purpositive 將來的時言主意

   • 1890 September, Benjamin Kidd, “The Battle of the Eggs”, in Longman's Magazine‎, volume 16, number 95, via the Internet Archive, pages 504–518:

     The searching or feeling movements of the processes have a significantly purpositive effect, and that the whole is the seat of life one is convinced beyond a doubt.

   • 1913, Gordon Morgan Holmes, “Diseases of the Optic Thalamus, Midbrain, and Cerebellum, and Their Treatment”, in William A. White, Smith Ely Jelliffe, editors, The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases: By American and British Authors, volume II, Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, pages 613–614:

     The special symptoms for which these patients seek relief are the hemiataxia which interferes with purpositive movement of the limbs […]

   • 1973 November, Harald Weydt, “On G. Lakoff, 'Instrumental Adverbs and the Concept of Deep Structure', Foundations of Language 4 (1968), 4-29”, in Foundations of Language, volume 10, number 4, →JSTOR, pages 569–578:

     […] the accidental sense may be obvious but the purpositive difficult to find.

   • 2004 January, Patricia Clark, Pilar Lavielle, Carolina Duarte, “Patient ratings of care at a rheumatology out-patient uni”, in Archives of Medical Research, volume 35, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 82–86:

     We used a purpositive convenience sample of adult patients with different rheumatologic diagnoses who were cared for at the out-patient rheumatology clinic at the HGM.

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参照

• “purpositive, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.