| 单词 |
apocatastasis |
| 释义 |
‖ apocatastasis rare.|ˌæpəʊkəˈtæstəsɪs|
Also apokatastasis.
[L., a. Gr. ἀποκατάστασις re-establishment, f. ἀπο-καθιστάναι to set up again.]
1. Restoration, re-establishment, renovation. spec. in Theol. (see quot. 1957).
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 328 A Tradition..concerning the Apocatastasis of the world..partly by Inundation and partly by Conflagration. 1867R. E. Wallis tr. Delitzsch's Syst. Biblical Psychol. vii. 552 No doctrine..contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis. 1956Sc. Jrnl. Theol. IX. 242 All of this is not to infer a doctrine of apokatastasis. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 67/2 Apocatastasis, the Greek name..for the doctrine that ultimately all free moral creatures—angels, men, and devils—will share in the grace of salvation.
2. Path. Return to a previous condition.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., We read of Apocatastasis or urine..of tumours, and other diseases. 1880Syd. Soc. Lex., Apocatastasis, The subsidence of a tumour, or the re-establishment of an exudation or secretion.
3. Astr. Return to the same apparent position, completion of period of revolution. (So in Gr.)
1822T. Taylor Apuleius i. 33 note, The accurate apocatastasis (i.e. regression to the same sign) of the moon, and in a similar manner of the sun. |
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