单词 | palingenesia |
释义 | palingenesian. = palingenesis n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > rebirth or regeneration > [noun] palingenesia1587 renascency1648 palingenesy1651 palingenesis1661 renascence1674 rebirth1837 neomorphosis1901 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiv. 638 Immediatly after, all things should be set in their perfect state ageine..which new state Varro called Palingenesian, that is to say, a Regeneration, Rebegetting, or New birth. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. ix. 39 The Pythagorians hold Metempsychosis, and Palingenesia, that Soules go from one body to another. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 336 The Palingenesia or Resurrection of Plants from their Ashes. 1781 in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1893) 245/1 With the second egg he performs an operation of Palengenesia, or regeneration, for the egg, being broke, produces a living bird, which in less than half a minute receives its full plumage, takes wing and flies away. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 245 We might then hope for a palingenesia, a restoration of national sanity and strength. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. v. 172 This is why it became the Palingenesia of a dead and miserable world. 1925 S. Angus Mystery-relig. & Christianity ii. 45 A Mystery-Religion..provoked in the initiate a mystical experience conducing to palingenesia (regeneration), the object of every initiation. 1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 42 New birth, Aurora, revolution, resurrection from the dead, Palingenesia, was about to be, was near. 1998 M. J. Mananzan Challenges to Inner Room 23 The schism of the body social..may result in the arrest of its growth, in its final extinction, or in some cases, in a Palingenesia or new birth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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