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futurition Philos.|fjuːtjʊˈrɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. futūritiōn-em, irreg. f. futūr-us future.
As a metaphysical term the med.L. word is used e.g. by St. Bonaventura Opera ed. Peltier 1864 II. 65 b, in discussions relating to God's foreknowledge of events. A different sense, = ‘the act of forecasting the future’, occurs in a letter of Bp. Jewel, 1 Aug. 1559, in Zurich Lett. ser. 1 (Parker Soc.) App. 22. The Parker Soc. translator renders Jewel's valde deditum futuritionibus by ‘mightily addicted to futuritions’; but the sense is not otherwise authenticated either in Lat. or Eng.]
1. Existence or occurrence in the future; future existence or accomplishment. Now rare.
1641D. Cawdrey 3 Serm. 72 In the one there shall be a succession of punishments, and so there shall be a respect of futurition or time to come. 1654Vilvain Theorem. Theol. ii. 64 A certainty of divine Prescience touching the precise period of every mans life, as also the order or maner of its futurition. 1659Pearson Creed (1682) I. 115 In which words is clearly expressed the futurition of salvation certain by him. 1684–5South Serm. (1823) I. 207 Is it imaginable, that the great means of the worlds redemption..should hang so loose in respect of its futurition as [etc.]. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 147 The word shall..does not mean, to promise..in the third person, but the mere futurition of an event. 1882–3in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2524/1 While foreknowledge may insure the certain futurition of a volition.
b. quasi-concr. A future event or existence; a futurity.
1668Shiells Naphtali Pref. 49 Let us not be anxious about futuritions. a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 996 There is a futurition of glory for the Soul. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 107 Seeing thorough the possibilities and futuritions of each [world]. 1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 144 Some mere futurition, as metaphysicians love to speak, some event in futurity.
2. The quality, attribute, or fact of being future; the fact or circumstance that (something specified) will be.
1666Spurstowe Spir. Chym. (1668) 79 Futurition in respect of existency of things, is no prejudice to the Eye of Faith, in the beholding of them as present. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xvii. (1700) 153 When God decrees that anything shall be, it has from that a certain futurition. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. viii. 251 The Acts and State of the Wills of moral Agents, which had a fix'd Futurition from Eternity. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 462 The Romans..had..forms expressing futurition and desire. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. vii. (1861) 166 If there is any law of futurition. |