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‖ nexus|ˈnɛksəs|
[L. nexus, pl. nexūs, f. nex-, nectĕre to bind, connect.]
1. a. A bond or link; a means of connexion between things or parts.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. 241 Changing the Motion and nexus or Juncture of their parts. 1709Brit. Apollo No. 34. 2/1 What is the Nexus of Matter? 1776J. Adams in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 113 It is the nexus of the northern and southern colonies. 1839Carlyle Chartism vi. 149 Cash Payment had not then grown to be the universal sole nexus of man to man. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant i. 158 The nexus of cause and effect is not given in sensitive experience.
b. causal nexus, the necessary connexion between cause and effect.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxix. (1859) II. 394 The phænomenon of necessity in our notion of the causal nexus. 1874W. Wallace Hegel's Logic §42. 75 The causal nexus between the two is..only evident to thought.
c. In Jespersen's terminology, a group of words containing a verb, or a predicative (with ellipsis of verb); a predicative relation or a construction treated as such. Freq. attrib.
1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. vii. 97 If now we compare the combination a furiously barking dog..with the dog barks furiously, it is evident that the same subordination obtains in the latter as in the former combination... We shall call the former kind junction, and the latter nexus. Ibid. ix. 122 A nexus-object is often found: ‘I found the cage empty’, which is easily distinguished from ‘I found the empty cage’ where empty is an adjunct. Ibid. 126 The subject-part (primary) of a Latin nexus-subjunct may be an accusative-with-infinitive or a clause. Ibid. x. 138 Nexus-substantives are also often convenient in cases where idiomatic usage does not allow a dependent clause, as after upon in ‘Close upon his resignation followed his last illness and death’. Ibid. xxii. 303 We may therefore call questions of this kind [i.e. yes-or-no] nexus-questions. 1928― Internat. Lang. ii. 130 To form so-called ‘abstracts’ (i.e. in my terminology predicative nexus-words) from adjectives we use the suffix -eso. 1933[see adnex]. 1936J. R. Aiken Commonsense Gram. xvii. 212 The clause is basically a nexus performing a single function within a communication. 1937O. Jespersen Analytic Syntax 16 Nexus-substantive, e.g. work, kindness. 1946― Mod. Eng. Gram. VI. v. 47 Something looking like a nexus-tertiary is continued with its S[ubject] as the real subject of the sentence. 1951A. H. Gardiner Speech & Lang. 261 Jespersen has given to this subject-predicate relation..the name of ‘nexus’. 1957S. Potter Mod. Linguistics iii. 71 General or nexus-questions which may be answered by ‘yes’ or ‘no’. 1966English Studies XLVII. 55 Those with nexus-objects (e.g. I believe Williams the murderer = Williams to be the murderer).
2. A connected group or series.
1858Birch Anc. Pottery II. 359 The letters are often united in nexus or ligatures. 1882N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. XXXVI. 178 The constabulary office belongs to a nexus of court institutions..of immemorial antiquity. |
