单词 | antemundane |
释义 | antemundaneadj. Existing or occurring before the creation of the world. Also occasionally in extended use: extremely ancient. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > spiritual or immaterial ghostlyOE spiritualc1384 supersubstantial1534 spirit-like?1611 spirituous1634 ethereal1642 supersensual1647 spirituose1677 earthless1679 antemundane1693 suprasensual1780 supersensuous1825 suprasensuous1838 1693 S. Nye Considerations Explic. Doctr. Trinity 57/1 An Ante-mundane Existence of our Saviour. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 12 The Supreme, Great antemundane Father! 1823 C. Lamb Witches in Elia 156 Some probable insight into our ante-mundane condition. 1851 E. Lear Jrnls. Landscape Painter in Albania 247 Pine trunks..lying along the side of the path like ante-mundane caterpillars crawling out of the way of the deluge. 1885 Westm. Rev. Apr. 199/1 The prophet of Nazareth is no longer pre-eminently the Messianic king, but an antemundane being. 1918 Monist 28 330 These [sc. birds]..Aristophanes seems to have regarded with awe and wonder as an airy antemundane thing. 1976 H. A. Wolfson Philos. Kalam ii. 138 They do not thereby admit the existence of an antemundane eternal matter conceived as something apart from God. 2011 A. W. Gomes in C. W. Morgan & R. A. Peterson Deity of Christ ix. 240 The church rejected the Arian christology as fatally flawed. For one thing, it could not..account for those texts that speak of Christ's antemundane creative activity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1693 |
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