单词 | macarism |
释义 | macarismn. a. The ascription of happiness to a person. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun] > ascription of happiness to a person macarism1818 1818 R. Whately Misc. Remains (1864) 25 (note) The words ‘felicitate’ and ‘congratulate’ are used only in application to events, which are one branch only of ‘macarism’. 1818 R. Whately Misc. Remains (1864) 28 To admiration, contempt seems to be the direct contrary; censure to commendation; pity to macarism. 1960 P. T. Geach in M. Brand Nature of Human Action (1970) 119 Someone whose own standards of macarism were different from those current in his society might use ‘happy’, in scare-quotes so to say, to mean ‘what most people count happy, that is rich’. b. Theology. A declaration or ascription of special blessedness; = beatitude n. 2. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > discourse > beatitudes blessingsc1400 beatitude1526 macarisma1860 a1860 J. A. Alexander Gospel Matthew (1861) 110 A series of beatitudes or macarisms [Note μακαρισμός], so called from the word with which they severally open. 1882 A. B. Bruce Parab. Teaching of Christ 380 The makarisms and woes with which Luke's version of the Sermon on the Mount begins. 1889 A. B. Bruce Kingdom of God Introd. 10 Luke's..form of the ‘macarisms’. 1977 R. N. Soulen Handbk. Biblical Crit. 102 Makarism..is a transliteration of the Greek word meaning ‘blessing’ (cf. Rom. 4:6, 9; Gal. 4:15)..sometimes used in form-critical studies..to denote sayings of this type. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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