| 释义 |
superˈnaturalize, v.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
trans. To make supernatural; to impart or attribute a supernatural character to.
a1643Aug. Baker Sancta Sophia (1857) 270 Without any prejudice..to the work, yea, to the great improvement and super-naturalizing of it. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 76 His humanity is supernaturalized and elevated by the activity of the Holy Ghost. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 403 No barbarian ever deified, or supernaturalized, every process around him. 1867W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) II. 193 The office of Grace, in supernaturalizing the soul and human action.
Hence ˌsupernaturaliˈzation.
1933Downside Rev. LI. 729 St Thomas gives no support..to the original views of Rousselot..as to the need of a kind of supernaturalization of the (natural) intellectual powers in order to accept and assent to revelation. 1961E. L. Mascall Grace & Glory i. 15 The sanctification and the supernaturalization of our whole being, body and soul alike—this is the purpose for which the Catholic Church and its whole sacramental equipment exist.
Add: superˈnaturalized a.
1936E. Underhill Worship iii. 44 Its possibilities [sc. those of sacramentalism] have never been exhausted by the most supernaturalized of saints. 1968A. M. Farrer Infallibility in Church i. 13 The infallible interpreter does not perform a supernaturalized human act, where Grace elevates the working of wisdom. |