单词 | protyle |
释义 | protylen. Science. Now historical. A hypothetical original undifferentiated matter from which the chemical elements were supposed to derive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > matter or corporeal substance > first or uncreated matter hylec1400 materia prima1551 prakriti1785 protyle1886 prima materia1906 1886 W. Crookes Addr. in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 568 Let us picture the very beginnings of time... Before even the sun himself had consolidated from the original protyle. [Note] We require a word analogous to protoplasm to express the idea of the original primal matter existing before the evolution of the chemical elements. The word I have ventured to use for the purpose is compounded of πρό (earlier than) and ὕλη (the stuff of which things are made). 1891 F. C. S. Schiller Riddles of Sphinx 189 Prothyle, the undifferentiated basis of chemical evolution. 1903 Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 5/1 That hypothetical substance—the ‘prothyl’—of which the entire material universe, suns, planets, comets, and nebulæ, is made. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 65 We may no more expect a man to be what he is not than we may direct a pine to be an elm or copper to be silver, not unless both have been subducted to the quintessence which we know as Protyle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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