单词 | ethico-physical |
释义 | > as lemmasethico-physical ethico-physical adj. Brit. /ˌɛθᵻkəʊˈfɪzᵻkl/ , U.S. /ˌɛθəkoʊˈfɪzək(ə)l/ [after post-classical Latin ethicophysicus (1627 or earlier)] both ethical and physical in character; relating to both ethics and the physical world.ΚΠ 1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance xv. 368 There may be a third kind of impossibility in Spirituall things..which One hath not ineptly called Ethico-physicall, or morally-naturall, partaking of the nature of both the other. 1661 A. Burgess Expository Comment 1st Chap. 2 Cor. xvi. 70 Gods work upon us is Ethico-physical in bringing of us home unto him. 1839 T. De Quincey Milton in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 778/1 For what may properly be called the Ethico-physical Sublime—there is but one great model surviving in the Greek poetry. 1918 W. Archer India & Future iv. 69 The first [sc. transmigration] is not a metaphysical doctrine at all, but an assertion of what may be called ethico-physical fact, which might conceivably be proved by such evidence as would satisfy a court of law. 2004 C. A. J. Littlewood Self-representation & Illusion in Senecan Trag. ii. vi. 59 The landscape functions as an objective ethico-physical context for human action. < as lemmas |
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