单词 | creaturizing |
释义 | creaturizingn. rare since 17th cent. The action or process of ascribing to God, a spirit, etc., the qualities of a created being; an instance of this. Cf. creaturize v. ΚΠ 1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Signatura Rerum iii. 19 Those which after their corporizing (or creaturizing) remained with their Desire in the Property of the Free Lubet, and introduced their Will out of the Fire into the Light, they became Angels. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 593 A Monstrous Degradation, of that Third hypostasis of their Trinity, and little other than an Absolute Creaturizing of the same. 2002 P. Briggs Span Mainstream & Sci. Fiction iv. 130 The reader becomes sympathetically attached to their life struggles and then undergoes the two sudden shifts of perspective: the ‘creaturizing’ of Lok and the Cro-Magnon view. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651 |
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