| 单词 | light of nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslight of nature d. light of nature: the capacity given to human beings of discerning certain divine truths without the help of revelation; (also occasionally in more trivial use) a person's natural instinct or ordinary abilities. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [noun] sense1555 light of nature1561 intuitiona1600 instinct1600 perception1701 persentiscency1712 sixth sense1761 Anschauung1820 intuitiveness1873 intuitivism1883 seerhood1884 third eye1921 radar1949 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. iv. f. 4v Those that chokyng the light of nature, do of purpose make them selues senselesse. 1599 Christian Let. Eng. Protestants 7 Yet you infer that the light of nature teacheth some knowledge naturall whiche is necessarie to saluation. 1630 W. Prynne God no Impostor (rev. ed.) 12 It is a greater good or happinesse then man by all the light of Art or Nature can attaine vnto. 1737 J. Barnard Call to Parents 14 The Light of Nature taught the Heathen to rear up their Family Altars. 1957 M. Nicholson Dict. Amer.-Eng. Usage 194/2 It is the pedant that begins his list with first; no one does so by the light of nature; it is an artificialism. 2013 Early Sci. & Med. 18 413 Being mediated by the light of nature, natural theology is included in natural knowledge. < as lemmas |
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