Because it’s already settled, at least according to some authority with a better track record and higher credibility than any individual author/reviewer/OP/etc…
That’s pretty much always the intended meaning, whenever anyone copies text straight from a dictionary anywhere on this site.
Entries 1a and 1b are obviously not not relevant to the OP, which is mainly about the sense in 3b (maybe a little bit the 3a sense too, since it is “merged with or coloured by sense 3b”).
Entry 3b looks (to me) sufficiently broad and vague that it doesn’t really rule anything out. Do you think it contradicts anything that’s in the OP?
Okay? Why are you telling us this?
Because it’s already settled, at least according to some authority with a better track record and higher credibility than any individual author/reviewer/OP/etc…
That’s pretty much always the intended meaning, whenever anyone copies text straight from a dictionary anywhere on this site.
Entries 1a and 1b are obviously not not relevant to the OP, which is mainly about the sense in 3b (maybe a little bit the 3a sense too, since it is “merged with or coloured by sense 3b”).
Entry 3b looks (to me) sufficiently broad and vague that it doesn’t really rule anything out. Do you think it contradicts anything that’s in the OP?