| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ ens, n.|ɛnz|
Pl. entia |ˈɛnʃɪə|.
[Late L. ēns; a neuter pr. pple. formed from L. esse to be, on the supposed analogy of the compds. absēns, potēns, etc.]
1. Philos.
a. Something which has existence; a ‘being’, entity, as opposed to an attribute, quality, etc.
1614T. Adams in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. ciii. 19 Eternity is properly the duration of an uncreated Ens. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 71 An ens is such naturally, that it should act or suffer something. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Mankind 323 Men have needlessly multiplied Entia. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 113 For it's necessary that every ens or being be derived from the first Being.
b. An entity regarded apart from any predicate but that of mere existence. Also, the predicable ‘ens’ regarded as an abstract notion.
1581Sidney Apol. Poet. (Arb.) 55 The quiddity of Ens. [1628Milton Vac. Exerc., Ens is represented as father of the Predicaments.] 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 41 Ens without weight, and substance without shade. 1870Bowen Logic iv. 90, I cannot see why ens is not thinkable.
†2. = essence. Obs.
1649J. E. tr. Behmen's Ep. 9 The dark fiery soule conceiveth the Ens and Essence of the Divine light in her selfe. 1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 288 It is the very Ens, or Being most pure of Flame.
†b. Alch. (See quots.) Obs.
1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §109. 178 Weigh its weight of fresh Ens well ground together. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 327 Reduce the Mercury of the Vulgar into its first liquid Ens. 1715Kersey, Ens Primum, the most efficacious Part of any natural Mixt Body. Ens Veneris, sublimation of equal Parts of the calcin'd Powder or Cyprus Vitriol, and of Sal Armoniack. 1721–1800in Bailey; and in mod. Dicts.
▪ II. ens
var. of enes adv. Obs. once. |