| 单词 | soul of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoul of the world soul of the world n. [after post-classical Latin anima mundi (see anima mundi n.); compare Hellenistic Greek ψυχὴ τοῦ κόσμου] chiefly Philosophy the animating principle of the world; = anima mundi n. Cf. world-soul n. at world n. Compounds 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 1525 T. Rychard Walton's Bk. Comfort iii. sig. Ij Furdermore also in creation of the mene spiret of treble kend, wyche som phylosophres as plato & hys foloers called anima mundi, the soule of the world. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course i. f. 1v A certaine vertue accompained with light and heat, which some of them do call the spirit or soule of the world; others say it is nature. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 215 In like manner he resolved that the Soul of the World..was not made by God out of Nothing neither. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. i. 23 A tract of Timæus the Locrian..concerning the soul of the world, in which we find the substance of Plato's doctrine concerning ideas. 1878 R. F. Burton Spiritualism in Eastern Lands in Sel. Papers (1924) 206 The archæal soul of the world. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxi. 317 The perfect object of belief would be a God or ‘Soul of the World’, represented both optimistically and moralistically. 1996 T. Moore Re-enchantment Everyday Life 36 [Jung] describes the soul of the world, anima mundi, as scintillae or sparks identical with the spirit of God.__ < as lemmas |
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