单词 | theogonist |
释义 | theogonistn. 1. One who is versed in or treats of theogony. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > generation or genealogy > one versed in theogonist1678 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 114 Such Theologers as these, who were Theogonists, and Generated all the Gods..out of Sensless and Stupid Matter. a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 635/1 Plato, the cosmogonist and theogonist, is another man altogether from Plato the seeker of hidden truths in the facts which lay before him. 1880 E. Myers Æschylus in E. Abbott Hellenica 16 If Pindar and Aeschylus treated the primitive theogonies with reverence, it was not the reverence of a primitive theogonist. 2. One who is born of God. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > one born of theogonite1831 theogonist1833 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 570 [In] Genesis..it is..stated that the aboriginal races of just men distinguished themselves by this..title, Alibenim, theogonists, or God's sons, from the atheistical Sathanists, or evil-seekers. Derivatives theˈogonism n. a system or theory of theogony. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > generation or genealogy theogony1612 theogonism1678 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. ** That strange kind of Religious Atheism, or Atheistick Theogonism, which asserted..Beings..called by them Gods;..Generated at First out of Night and Chaos..and Corruptible again into the same. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Contents sig. h3v A certain kind of Atheistick Theism, or Theogonism, which acknowledging a God, or Soul of the World,..supposed him..to have Emerged out of Night and Chaos. theˈogonite n. = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > one born of theogonite1831 theogonist1833 1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 94 He [Lord Brougham] assumes too much of the theogonite to be wise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1678 |
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