publicadj詞源 1/ˈpʌb.lɪk/

• 1

  Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.

  • VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
  • [T]he Apoſtles preached as vvell vvhen they vvrote as vvhen they ſpake the Goſpell of Chriſt, and our vſuall publique reading of the vvord of God for the peoples inſtruction is preaching.
• 2

  Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.

  • public library    public park
  • I ſavv her once / Hop forty Paces through the publicke ſtreete, […]
• 3

  businessOpen to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.

• 4

  Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.

  • [S]tanding publick Records have been kept of theſe vvell atteſted Relations, and Epocha’s made of thoſe unvvonted events.
  • [I]f the nominated be to a place vvherein he is entruſted vvith the management of public moneys, he that nominates is ſurety for him, and is to make good vvhat he defrauds the Common-vvealth of.
• 5

  Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.

  • public housing    public officer    public prosecutor    public servant
  • Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.
• 6

  Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional.

  • public face    public image
  • The first that I lay my hands on, is a treatise concerning 'the empire of beauty,' and the effects it has had in all nations of the world, upon the public and private actions of men; […]
• 7

  Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.

• 8

  archaicPertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized; international, supernational.

  • […] Nicodemus had not affirmed him [Jesus] to be a prophete, but ſayde: whoſoeuer he be, he ought not after our common, or rather publike law, (that is to ſaye, a lawe which indifferently perteyneth to all men of euery ſtate) to be condemned, except his cauſe be knowen before.
  • [S]uch a one concerns himſelf very needleſsly for almoſt all the publique Quarrels in Chriſtendome, and ſhevvs himſelf zealous for a party vvhich vvill receive no advantage by his diſquiets; […]

publicnoun詞源 1/ˈpʌb.lɪk/

• 1

  Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.

  • Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.
  • In ſũ [sum], you are a Prince, & a father of people, vvho ought vvith the eye of vviſdome, the hand of fortitude, and the hart of iuſtice to ſet dovvne all priuate conceits, in compariſon of vvhat for the publike is profitable.
• 2

  Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.

  • By dint of drinking acid tiff, as above mentioned, and smoking segars, in which I am no novice, my Public are to be informed, that I gradually drank and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with un homme comme il faut [a decent man], one of the few fine old specimens of nobility who are still to be found in France; […]
• 3

  Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.

  • the cinema-going public
  • the reading public
• 4

  human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceOften preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.

• 5

  obsoleteChiefly preceded by the: a collective body of a politically organized nation or state; a body politic, a nation, a state; also, the interest or well-being of such a collective body; the common good.

• 6

  obsoleteAt Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the student's parents or guardian.

• 7

  Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.

  • Come follovv vs, / VVe are to ſpeake in publique: for this buſineſſe / VVill raiſe vs all.
  • [W]e went to the Chetto de san Felice, to see the noblemen and their ladies at Basset, a game at cards which is much used, but they play not in public, and all that have inclination to it are in masquerade, without speaking one word, and so they come in, play, loose or gaine, and go away as they please.

publicverb詞源 1/ˈpʌb.lɪk/

• 1

  archaicTo make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.

  • [H]e is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites and to the irony of the stars.

publicnoun詞源 2/ˈpʌb.lɪk/

• 1

  An internet publication.

  • Russian publics report that the fighters of the Wagner group have already practically taken possession of Soledar, there are fights on the outskirts, where the Vushniks are trying to fight back in the salt mines.
  • Complex inductions are unconscious powerful components of influence. They include the following varieties: […] 4) Truisms. The term comes from the English word "true", which means "truth". Therefore, under truism it is accepted to understand banal truths, i.e. something that in principle does not require confirmation, but it is so banal and common knowledge that it is rather strange to base on it, but here again there is a "but". In our subconsciousness we perceive it as a certain axiom, and this axiom is interpreted by our subconsciousness itself. As an example, the phrase "In matters of war, Russia is Russia, and Ukraine is Ukraine" was repeatedly encountered in Russian publics. In principle, there is no sense in this phrase, because not a single fact is given. However, each of the readers interpreted it for himself, and putting the word "Russia" in the foreground makes a hint that Russia is stronger than Ukraine in military terms, but the phrase itself does not express such a meaning extra-linguistically.

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