单词 | mother-idea |
释义 | > as lemmasmother-idea ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > fundamental mother-idea1821 idée mère1841 mother-thought1861 seed thought1863 1821 P. S. Du Ponceau Let. in M. O. Pickering Life John Pickering (1887) 313 This is a mother-idea that will create a new title in philological literature. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 270 There is a mother-idea in each particular kind of tree, which, if well marked, is probably embodied in the poetry of every language. 1873 Appletons' Jrnl. Aug. 237/2 I can fancy myself in the caverns where the archetypical ideas—the mother ideas, as Goethe calls them—wove the web of life. < as lemmas |
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