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circumincession Theol.|ˌsɜːkəmɪnˈsɛʃən|
[ad. med.L. circumincēssiōn-em, lit. ‘going round’, f. circum- round + incēdĕre to move, proceed, go. Introduced as a translation of Gr. περιχώρησις (lit. ‘circuition, rotation’) as employed by Damascenus (8th c.) in his explication of the text ‘I am in the Father, and the Father in me’, it became a standard term of scholastic theology. The difficulty of getting the sense in which the term thus came to be used, out of the literal ‘going round’, led in later times to its frequent alteration to circuminsession, as if = ‘an insitting or indwelling (insessio) in rotation or reciprocally’: see β.]
1644Digby Nat. Bodies (1657) 143 Who can look upon..the incomprehensible circumincession..reserved for Angels eyes? 1656Blount Glossogr., Circumincession (from circum and incedo), a going or walking round about; As it is used among Divines it signifies the reciprocal being of the persons of the blessed Trinity in each other. a1716South Serm. (1717) IV. 318 These men..have by their Modalities, Suppositalities, Circumincessions, and twenty such other Chimeras, so misrepresented this..Article of the Trinity to men's reason. 1751Chambers Cycl., Circumincession, in theology, a term whereby the schoolmen use to express the existence of three divine persons in one another, in the mystery of the trinity. 1873F. Hall Mod. English 38 A callow student of theology confesses that he is fairly gravelled by the hypostatic circumincession.
(β) written circuminsession.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 590 These Platonists..attribute to their Three Divine Hypostases, just such an ἐµπεριχώρησις, Circuminsession, or mutual In-being, as Christians do. 1697State Philadelph. Soc. 19 A mutual Inhabitation, or Circuminsession, of Christ and the Soul. 1721Bailey Circuminsession [1731–1800 Circumincession]. 1887H. S. Bowden tr. Hettinger's Dante 258 The bliss of the Divinity consists in the everlasting circuminsession of the Father in the Son, of the Son in the Father, of Both in the Holy Ghost. |