单词 | palingenesis |
释义 | palingenesisn. 1. Regeneration, rebirth; revival, resuscitation; an instance of this. Also figurative. Cf. palingenesia n.In philosophy and natural science, formerly applied spec. to the (supposed) regeneration of living organisms from ashes or putrefying matter, to the preformation theory of Charles Bonnet (1720–93), and to the persistence of the soul (metempsychosis) or (in Schopenhauer) of the will from one generation to another (now historical). Cf. also sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > rebirth or regeneration > [noun] palingenesia1587 renascency1648 palingenesy1651 palingenesis1661 renascence1674 rebirth1837 neomorphosis1901 1661 K. Digby Disc. Vegetation Plants 80 If all the Essentiall parts could be preserved..I see no reason but at the reunion of them, the entire Plant might appeare in its complete perfection... Were not this then a true Palingenesis of the originall Plant? 1818 J. C. Hobhouse Italy (1859) II. 351 A poem which he [sc. Monti] published..and called the ‘Palingenesis’. 1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 777/1 Palingenesis, production of animals, either from a pre-existent living organism, on which they were parasites, or from putrescent animal matter. 1871 H. Macmillan True Vine (1872) iv. 169 The palingenesis of creation is accomplished, not by the rooting-up of evil, but by the sowing of good. 1893 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 14 95 Although entirely faithful in word and form, it is a poetic palingenesis of the original. 1907 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 16 271 There may be..a suggestion of palingenesis or of metempsychosis in this painting from Naucratis. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 256 Death is worthy of homage, as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis. 1991 Descant Summer 175 Ra begins to approach the time interval known to anthropology students in folk rituals the world over, particularly those celebrating or concluding with some form of palingenesis or rebirth. 2007 K. Barry in S. J. Richter Goethe Yearbk. XIV 1 In natural-philosophical and scientific writings, palingenesis indicates a doctrine of rebirth understood as a renewal of bodily material. 2. a. Biology. Ontogenetic development characterized by the ordered recapitulation of inherited ancestral forms, with any innovation arising at the end of the sequence rather than interrupting or modifying it. Cf. recapitulation n.1 1c. Now frequently historical.In Haeckel's original terminology, opposed to caenogenesis n. or kenogenesis n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > breeding true stirpiculture1870 palingenesis1876 palingeny1876 1876 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 16 51 There are two distinct tendencies to be estimated in the process of ontogeny: the tendency to recapitulation of the complete series of ancestral forms, the effects of which Haeckel terms Palingenesis [etc.]. 1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. 11 This distinction between Palingenesis or inherited evolution, and Kenogenesis or vitiated evolution, has not..yet been sufficiently appreciated by naturalists. 1901 Science 4 Jan. 17/2 The recapitulation theory has encountered so many difficulties..scholastic mazes of ancestral and secondary characters, of palingenesis and cenogenesis, of primary and adaptive forms. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) iv. 102 Parapatoceras and Baculites..afford examples of palingenesis, and by their early coiled stages are distinguishable as derivatives of normal ammonites. 1992 Rivista di Biol. 85 369 The relationships between embryogenesis and the scale of living beings have been the subject of long-dated observations... Haeckel, going back and codifying this data, has divided it into two large groups called palingenesis and coenogenesis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > process of metamorphosis transformation1663 complete metamorphosis1826 metamorphism1866 palingenesis1882 1882 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Palingenesis, the transition from one state into another observed in insects, and in each of which the insect appears in a totally different form. 3. Geology. The formation of new magma by the remelting of existing magmatic rocks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > metamorphism > [noun] > magmatism plutonism1879 piezo-crystallization1895 assimilation1903 palingenesis1907 syntexis1911 rheomorphism1937 magmatism1952 1907 J. J. Sederholm in Bull. Comm. Géol. Finlande xxiii. 102 The granitic magma, once solidified and, in part, decomposed, undergoes again, when brought into the deeper parts of the earth, a resurrection, or, as the author expresses it, palingenesis. 1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xxx. 1131 The following list of the radiometric ages of some of the uplifted basement rocks shows how successfully they escaped the widespread palingenesis..that rejuvenated similar old rocks during the Nevadan orogenies farther west. 1974 L. N. Kogarko in H. Sørensen Alkaline Rocks vi. 480/1 The significant reductions of the melting temperatures of rocks caused by the volatile components is probably of great importance for palingenesis. 1991 Math. Geol. 23 976 Palingenesis is typified by the fact that the rock is formed in the process of melting, up to eutectic composition, at an initial phase of crystallization. 2008 G. Levitan Gold Deposits CIS iv. 181 According to geological and geophysical data, these plutons..formed as a result of palingenesis generated by deep emanations and involving a large mass of rocks in the upper crust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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