单词 | multipresence |
释义 | multipresencen. Chiefly Theology and Philosophy. The fact of being or power to be present in several or many places simultaneously. Cf. multilocation n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > being in more than one place at a time multipresence1615 pluripresence1791 bilocation1858 multilocation1865 multilocality1935 1615 Bp. J. Hall No Peace with Rome xvii, in Recoll. Treat. 874 That exploded opinion of Transubstantiation, and (which is the root of it) the Multipresence of Christs body. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 30 He has Invisibility, and Multipresence, as a Spirit has. 1885 P. Schaff Christ & Christianity 75 The mediæval schoolmen..ascribe..a miraculous multipresence to his body and blood in the sacrament of the altar. 1892 Mag. Christian Lit. Apr. 3/1 The Saxon Churches generally acknowledged a potential presence (volipresence, multipresence) of the human nature of Christ. 1940 Philos. Rev. 49 558 Where two things are really one, in multipresence. 1943 Jrnl. Philos. 40 505 It is..the differentiating mark of universals that the relation between their temporal and their spatial locus is one-many..and hence the multipresence of the universal seems paradoxical only if the universal is tacitly treated as a thing. 1983 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. May 23 Where the company, its parent and/or its subsidiaries have no current or former presence in the host country, separate assessment of corporate-specific or multi-presence variables is generally believed to be redundant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1615 |
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