单词 | lumen siccum |
释义 | lumen siccumn. The dry light of rational knowledge or thought. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] > rational thought lumen siccum1605 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > enlightenment > [noun] > source of luminarya1450 candlea1533 thorough light1598 lumen siccum1605 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm4 But this same Lumen siccum, doth parch and offend most mens watry and soft natures. View more context for this quotation 1819 S. T. Coleridge Philos. Lect. (expanded from shorthand transcript) (1949) xiii. 374 Must there not be some power, call it with Lord Bacon the ‘lumen siccum’; or ‘the pure light’, with Lord Herbert;..that stands in human nature but in some participation of the eternal and the universal by which man is enabled to question, nay to contradict, the irresistible impressions of his own senses, nay, the necessary deductions of his own understanding? 1946 Mind 55 285 Taylor's intellect was no lumen siccum, but was always strongly personal in its approach and attitude. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1605 |
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