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terminism|ˈtɜːmɪnɪz(ə)m| [mod. f. L. terminus end, limit + -ism. So F. terminisme, G. terminismus.] a. Philos. The doctrine that universals are mere terms or names: = nominalism b. b. Theol. The doctrine (maintained by Reichenberg at Leipzig in the 17th c.) that God has appointed a definite term or limit in the life of each individual, after which the opportunity for salvation is lost. So ˈterminist (cf. med.L. terminista), one who holds or maintains terminism (in either sense); hence termiˈnistic a.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Terminists, Terministæ, a sect or party among the Calvinists. 1758Jortin Erasmus I. 335 note, The Terminists were Sectaries in the high Schools... They oppose the Thomists, the Scotists, and the Albertists: they are also called Occamists. 1764A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. xv. ii. i. §7 The Realists maintained a manifest superiority over the Nominalists, to whom they also gave the appellation of Terminists. 1860Gardner Faiths of World, Terministic controversy, a dispute which arose towards the end of the seventeenth century on the question, Whether God has fixed a terminus gratiæ, or determinate period in the life of an individual, within which he may repent... Those who agreed with Reichenberg received the name of Terminists. 1878S. H. Hodgson Philos. Reflection I. i. 66 Nominalism..in its later shape, in which it is opposed to Conceptualism and is then more properly to be called Terminism. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2317 (heading) Terminism and the terministic controversy. |