单词 | repassion |
释义 | repassionn. rare after 17th cent. An effect given in return; influence exerted reciprocally. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > subjecting to an action or process > undergoing or reception of action > counter repassion1601 1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 35 This action of God..is not a transeant action, to cause a passion in the subiect, and a repassion in the agent. 1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations iii. 64 The Rod it self is smitten, whensoever it smites, at every blow wounded and torn by way of repassion. 1700 tr. H. M. Herwig Art curing Sympathetically 41 The cure of bodies,..without all doubt may be performed by Medicines that possess a Magnetick quality, by a energy arising from thence. And in regard that between agent and patient there is required a kind of repassion, they assert that something like it is to be found here. 1980 C. Lewis tr. F. Buonamici in Merton Trad. (ed. 2) iv. 136 Latin sophists..have thrown almost everything into confusion concerning Aristotle's teaching on the mutual affection of things, or ‘repassion’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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