“cosmoplastic”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

cosmoplastic

释义

cosmoplastic, a.|kɒzməʊˈplæstɪk|
[f. Gr. κοσµοπλάστ-ης framer of the world (f. κόσµο-ς world + πλάστης moulder) + -ic: cf. plastic.]
†1. Maintaining an inanimate plastic nature to be the highest principle of the universe. Obs.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 10 A fourth atheistick form..concluded the whole world..to be..onely one huge plant or vegetable, having an artificial, plantal, and plastick nature..those cosmo-plastick and hylozoick atheisms.Ibid. i. iii. 143 The stoical or cosmo-plastick Atheists.1681H. Hallywell Melampr. 84 (T.) He [Seneca] being no better than a cosmoplastick atheist, i.e. he made a certain plastick or spermatick nature, devoid of all animality or conscious intellectuality, to be the highest principle in the universe.
2. Moulding or forming the universe.
1884G. Macdonald Unspoken Serm. 204 To the tides of whose harmonious cosmo-plastic life all his being thence⁓forward lies open for interpenetration and assimilation.

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