单词 | ab aeterno |
释义 | ab aeternoadv. From eternity, from the beginning of time; from the most remote antiquity. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1593–4 H. Garnet Societie of Rosary sig. A 7 So was she before all worlds appointed and chosen to so greate highnes; in so much, that ab eterno, Almighty God..had a speciall delight and repose in her. 1597 tr. A. de Guevara Mount Caluarie: 2nd Pt. iv. xii. 230 The diuine birth was so farre before the other, that we find no beginning of it, because it was Ab æterno [Sp. porque fue abeterno]. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. iv. ii. iii. 625 Our indiscreet Pastors..speake so much of election, predestination, reprobation ab æterno, subtraction of grace, preterition, voluntary permission, &c. 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xliv. 382 The Arians..must acknowledge him to exist necessarily ab aeterno, and nothing can do so but what is God. 1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. xx. 391 There was no more [matter] a thousand Years ago than to Day.., it therefore will be Eternal, and if it will be Eternal, it has been ab æterno. 1795 T. Pownall Intellect. Physicks vi. 98 Space infinite..cannot be absent from any place or time; but hath been, is, and must be, everywhere, ab æterno. 1875 Catholic World Nov. 253/1 We are convinced that the world could not be created ab æterno. 1904 Philos. Rev. 13 200 Saint Thomas..admits with Aristotle the possibility of a creation ab æterno. 1964 Italica 41 97 Even the angels' nature is fixed ‘ab aeterno’.., man is the only truly free creature. 1990 P. Van Veldhuijsen in J. B. M. Wissink Eternity of World iii. 69 Thomas Aquinas..searches for the intelligibility of creatio ab aeterno. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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