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telic

[ tel-ik, tee-lik ]

adjective

  1. Grammar. expressing end or purpose:

    a telic conjunction.

  2. tending to a definite end.


telic

/ 藞迟蓻濒瑟办 /

adjective

  1. directed or moving towards some goal; purposeful
  2. (of a clause or phrase) expressing purpose
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 迟别濒顎僫路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 苍辞苍路迟别濒顎僫肠 adjective
  • 耻苍路迟别濒顎僫肠 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of telic1

First recorded in 1840鈥50, telic is from the Greek word 迟别濒颈办贸蝉 pertaining to an end or cause. See tel- 2, -ic
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of telic1

C19: from Greek telikos final, from telos end
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Example Sentences

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These operations, as rarefied and complex as they may have become, continue to perform the basic聽telic task of the second law.

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Purposive progress rather than unconscious, telic rather than genetic, is the order of the evolution of society.

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He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance.

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They take place in the cosmic context of a naturally telic, purposive universe.

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Means of Social Progress.鈥擳here are three distinct means of telic progress.

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