humane
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English humain, humayne, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō (“man”). Cognate with Old English guma (“man”), whence the groom in English bridegroom.
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humane (comparative humaner or more humane, superlative humanest or most humane)
- Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
- It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
- As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- The unfortunate thing about Bando, said Arthur, is that it is no longer to be obtained in this unfortunate country. I understand that inferior products, such as Ostreine and Spanish Flies, may still be wheedled out of some of the humaner chemists, up and down the city, in the ten minutes or a quarter of an hour immediately following their midday meal.
- Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:
- many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.
- Obsolete spelling of human
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with regard for the health and well-being of another
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pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities
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ReferencesEdit
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “humane”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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- inflection of human:
LatinEdit
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From hūmānus (“humane, noble”)
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hūmānē (comparative hūmānius, superlative hūmānissimē)
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- “humane”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “humane”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- humane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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humane
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of humanar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of humanar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of humanar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of humanar.
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