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单词 pleroma
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pleroman.

Brit. /plᵻˈrəʊmə/, U.S. /pləˈroʊmə/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pleroma.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pleroma (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian as a Gnostic term: see sense 1b) < ancient Greek πλήρωμα that which fills, a complement, in Hellenistic Greek also fullness, full and perfect nature (New Testament), whole of divine sphere < πληροῦν to make full ( < πλήρης full: see plereme n.) + -μα (see -oma comb. form). With sense 2 compare earlier plerome n.In sense 1a, frequently used with reference to Colossians 2:9: Ὅτι ἐν αὐτῶῳ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς.
1. Chiefly Theology.
a. A state or condition of absolute fullness or plenitude; originally and chiefly that of God's being or identity, esp. as believed to have been incarnated in Christ.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > fullness of
pleroma1697
1697 E. Stillingfleet Answer to Mr. Locke's Let. Postscr. 143 Is all this Cabala too, and only to be used when People are to be gulled with noisy Nothings? i.e. with empty Pleroma's, and silent Thunderclaps.
1698 W. Sherlock Present State Socininian Controv. ii. 68 Their Pleroma, by which they seem to understand the Fulness of the Deity, as St. Paul uses that Phrase.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 2 The pleroma of being, whose essential poles are unity and distinctity.
1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians 329 The ideal church is the pleroma of Christ, and the militant church must strive to become the pleroma.
1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. New Test. 147 Since man was brought into relationship with the Pleroma of the Godhead by angelic emanations or powers, the worship of Christ was not so ‘perfect’ as the worship of the angels with humility.
1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 108 It is perhaps there in the unreconstituted and rewarding pleroma of that conviction, a ‘red brought nearer to humanity by yellow’, as Kandinsky says.
b. In Gnostic doctrine: the spiritual universe regarded as the totality of God's powers and manifestations. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > Gnostic
pleroma1702
1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed 84 These Thirty Aions they fancied to lead an idle and un-active Life, within an imaginary Space, Pleroma, or Fulness.
1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vii. 291 In the same manner the Christian Gnostics, of the sect of Valentinus, held their Pleroma, and their thirty ages.
1831 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. i. iii. 78 One of these later emanations passed the boundaries of the Pleroma, which was the abode of the Deity, and there coming in contact with Matter created the world.
1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians (1886) 100 For this totality [of the Divine powers] Gnostic teachers had a technical term, the pleroma or plenitude.
1936 G. L. Prestige God in Patristic Thought x. 197 According to the Valentinians..the abortive and degenerate fruit of the final aeon in the divine Absolute (pleroma) was homoousios with angelic (‘spiritual’) beings.
1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iv. xxi. 467 The primordial reality was the Pleroma or fullness, which is called Chaos by normative Jews, pious Christians, and Muslims, but was revered as Foremother and Forefather by the Gnostics.
2. Botany. = plerome n. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > meristem
meristem1872
plerome1875
protomeristem1880
calyptrogen1881
perimeristem1884
pleroma1890
promeristem1898
1890 Cent. Dict. Pleroma... In bot., same as plerome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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