ecbatic
[ek'bætik]
- adj. 表示结果而不表示目的或用意的
英文词源
- ecbatic (adj.)
- "drawn from the relationship of cause and effect," especially of arguments, 1836, from ecbasis, from Latin ecbasis, from Greek ekbasis "a going out, issue, event," from ek- "out" (see ex-) + basis "a step, a base," from bainein "to go, step" (see come).