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onto- combining form of Gr. ὄν, ὀντ- being present participle of εἶναι to be. onˈtogony [-γονία generation, production], the history of the production of organized beings (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1857). onˈtography [-graphy], a description of the nature and essence of things (Mayne); so ontoˈgraphic a. onˈtonomy [-νοµία distribution, arrangement] (see quot.). onˈtosophy [σοϕία wisdom], the knowledge of being; ontology. ontotheˈology (see quots.); so ontotheoˈlogical a.
1803J. Stewart (title) Opus maximum..*Ontonomy; or, the science of being.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Ontology, or *Ontosophy, the doctrine or Science de ente, that is, of being, in the general, or abstract. 1869Contemp. Rev. X. 407 It was not to be an ‘ontology’ nor an ‘ontosophy’.
1798A. F. M. Willich Elem. Critical Philos. 171 *Ontotheology is the cognition of a Supreme Being from bare conceptions. 1854Geo. Eliot tr. Feuerbach's Essence Christianity ii. 38 The ens realissimum, the most real being of the old onto-theology.
Ibid. 40 The *onto-theological predicates are merely predicates of the understanding. |