单词 | idomenian |
释义 | IdomenianIdomeneanadj.n. A. adj. Of or belonging to a race imagined by Thomas Reid, an 18th-cent. metaphysician, to have no sense but sight, and to believe that space has only two dimensions. ΚΠ 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. 257 A person of great genius, who is looked upon as having had something in him above Idomenian nature. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. 257 The Idomenian faculties were certainly intended for contemplation. B. n. A member of this race. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > imaginary persons or creatures man in the moon1596 Briarean1598 phantasim1598 mooncalf1638 splacknuck1726 Idomenian1764 little green man1802 ring-tailed roarer1828 Belsnickel1830 ice worm1830 catawampus1843 whangdoodle1852 Prince Charming1855 boojum1876 snark1879 Easter rabbit1881 Easter bunny1900 death moth1910 Moomin1950 energy vampire1967 tooth fairy1977 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. 252 ‘The Idomenians,’ saith he, ‘are many of them very ingenious, and much given to contemplation.’ 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. 255 The geometry of the Idomenians agrees in every thing with the geometry of visibles. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. 258 Every Idomenian firmly believes, that two or more bodies may exist in the same place. 1871 A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley x. 400 The invisibility of that sort of distance can thus be proved even to the Idomenian. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 214 One of Reid's Idomenians would frame precisely the same conception of the external world that we do, if he had our intellectual powers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1764 |
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