单词 | empedoclean |
释义 | Empedocleanadj. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Empedocles or his philosophy, esp. the idea that earth, air, fire, and water are the four ‘roots’ or elements of all material reality, and that these are acted upon by the opposing forces of love and strife.In quot. 1599 with reference to the legend that Empedocles killed himself by leaping into the volcano of Mount Etna. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [adjective] > specific schools or philosophers Pythagorical1570 Pythagorean1579 Anaxagorean1586 Pythagoric1589 Empedoclean1599 Democritean1603 Democritala1617 Democritical1650 atomical1653 Italic1662 Democritish1668 Anaximandrian1678 atomic1678 Democritic1678 Heraclitic1678 hylopathian1678 Parmenidean1678 Heracliticala1688 atomistic1695 Eleatic1695 atomistical1707 acousmatic1753 Pythagorico-Platonic1760 Zenonic1779 Heraclitean1791 neopythagorean1863 1599 H. Broughton Explic. Lordes Soules 77 All this to come to kepe your cold Empedoclean G. from Leapping into burning Ætna. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. 23 The fullest Record of the Empedoclean Philosophy concerning the Soul is contained in this of Hierocles. 1708 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper Apr. You cou'd not assign Vain-Glory as the Motive the Ancient Christians Acted by, unless you will allow them all to have been Empedoclean Mad-Men. 1866 North Brit. Rev. Dec. 436 Of the eternity of these four primal substances [sc. earth, water, fire, air], according to the Empedoclean theory, there is no doubt. 1940 F. S. Boas Christopher Marlowe xiii. 234 The Empedoclean doctrine that strife begot the universe. 2009 C. J. Vamvacas Founders of Western Thought: Presocratics 185 This Empedoclean distinction between matter and force still applies today. And..in a way that is amazingly close to Empedocles's visionary theory of the cosmos. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1599 |
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