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SURPRISE CAUSING a DESIRE FOR EXPLANATION.
Hypernym
  • SURPRISED　FEEL that something one EXPERIENCES NOW is STRANGE OR DIFFERENT from what is COMMON.Surprise originating from supriser X, acting on surprisee Y, activated because of the surprising feature Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 2)
  • FEELING　NATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND. (anc: 11/0, child: 17)
  • REACT　CHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something. (anc: 10/0, child: 5)
  • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 454

    ADMIRATIO est mentis, effectum videntis causam tamen ignorantis haesitatio, cum spe penetrandi conjuncta. (Affectus est ex Voluptate et desiderio mixtus. Volupe enim est videre rem miram; sed intelligendi eam desiderium titillat animum, grataqve reciprocatione cum spe conjuncta jucunditate auget. Concurrit ergo in admiratione

    1. In Objecto magnitudo aut subtilitas rei

    2. In Subecto, ignorantia causae

    3. In copia, desiderium rem intellectui copulandi.

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no253

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    • VPt N{PRED}wonder whether the understood object after 以 is an NCH
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    • VPt N{PRED}wonder whether the understood object after 以 is an NCH