Citations:acapnotic

English citations of acapnotic

adjective edit

  • 2000, A. Flammer, W. Kinzelbach, Discourse Processing, Elsevier (→ISBN), page 152:
    The task chosen to elucidate these questions is illustrated by the following example: "She was acapnotic. She simply did not want to smoke." What does the word "acapnotic" mean? This type of task, i.e. interpreting words from a context, was ...

noun edit

  • 1957, The Classical Journal, page 173:
    [] Colgate University, from whom the clipping came, commented, the Greeks still continue to have words for it. The article, which follows immediately, emanated from Charlestown, Indiana. ATTENTION, capnotics, capnophiliacs, and acapnotics  []
  • 1983, Sternberg and Powell, quoted in 2014, M. G. McKeown, M. E. Curtis, The Nature of Vocabulary Acquisition, Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 91:
    Sternberg and Powell (1983) have proposed that learning from context involves [...] contextual cues, [...] Consider, for example, the passage fragment:
    An acapnotic, he disliked her smoking; and when he removed his hat, she, who preferred “ageless” men, eyed his increasing phalacrosis and grimaced.
  • 1996 March 22, "Chocolate Waters" (username), If You Do Not Want To Smoke, in alt.politics.correct, Usenet:
    **IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SMOKE
    please go out into the hall.
    If you do not want to smoke,
    please go out into the
    dirty, filthy, smelly, humid
    backstairs hall.
    []
    **For acapnotics everywhere
    Chocolate Waters, 1996
    "Children are sticky and they don't smoke..." - Fran Lebowitz