单词 | ennead |
释义 | enneadn.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > nine > [noun] > figure representing nineOE ennead1660 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 64 The Ennead is the first square of an odd number. 2. A set of nine persons or things (discourses, points, etc.); spec. one of the six divisions in Porphyry's collection of Plotinus' works, each of which contains nine books. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > nine > [noun] > group of nine ninesomec1440 novenary1587 ennead1653 nonary1666 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 186 In his fifth Ennead..he makes the Universe a necessary Emanation of God. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 213 Though Tertullian be yet more Liberal, and encrease the Number to an Ennead. 1854 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) II. 58 I disposed them, he [Porphyry] says, into 6 Enneads, gladly availing myself of the perfect numbers (6 and 9). 1870 Prof. Cayley in Nature 29 Dec. 178/1 The name ‘ennead’ is given to any nine points in plano which are the intersections of 2 cubic curves: or to any nine lines through a point which are the intersections of two cubic curves. 1881 Church Q. Rev. 172 The exquisite language of the prophecy of Isaiah, especially in its last three enneads. 1884 E. A. T. W. Budge Babylonian Life & Hist. ix. 128 The most important ennead [of Gods] among the Babylonians was as follows. Derivatives enneˈadic adj. pertaining to an ennead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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