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theophany|θiːˈɒfənɪ|
[ad. L. theophania (c 400 in Rufinus), a. Gr. θεοϕάνεια and θεοϕάνια (neut. pl.), f. θεός god + ϕαίνειν to show: see -phany. So F. théophanie. Cf. tiffany.]
a. A manifestation or appearance of God or a god to man. Also transf.
a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 56 First, the Starre manifested him..from the Heavens. That's, the Epiphany: Secondly, it manifested him from God (in Trinity): for hee sent the Starre. There's, the Theophany. And lastly; It manifested him on Earth (in Domo):..There's the Bethphany. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 193 Neither was the name Theophanie, which signifies the apparition of God or the Gods, unusual even among the Gentiles. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. viii. v. III. 352 The universe is but a sublime Theophany, a visible manifestation of God. 1894F. Watson Genesis a true Hist. vi. 141 In the records of the Theophanies to Joshua, Gideon, and Manoah. Ibid., The Theophany to Elijah at Horeb. 1962Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 256 The practical joker desires to make others obey him without being aware of his existence until the moment of his theophany.
b. A festival celebrating the manifestation of a deity. (Sometimes spec. applied to Christmas.)
1745A. Butler Lives Saints (1836) I. 26 note, The Greeks still keep the Epiphany with the birth of Christ on Christmas⁓day, which they call Theophany, or the manifestation of God. [1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Theophania, θεοϕάνεια,..a festival observed by the Delphians upon the day whereon Apollo first manifested himself to them.]
Hence theoˈphanic a., of or pertaining to theophany; theˈophanism, theophany; also, belief in theophanies; theˈophanous a., characterized by theophany.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2346 No vision is without a *theophanic element. 1886C. A. Briggs Messianic Proph. i. vi. §10. 20 It is the theophanic manifestation of God in forms of time and space and the sphere of physical nature.
1849Lady Wilde tr. Meinhold's Sidonia Sorc. iii. xiii. II. 184 note, All the *theophanisms (God-manifestations) recorded in the Old Testament. 1938S. Beckett Murphy v. 81 An adherent (on and off) of the extreme theophanism of William of Champeaux. 1970R. Manheim tr. Corbin's Creative Imagination Ṣūfism 52 Not to understand..Ibn ‘Arabī's conscious intention..of expressing a divine love, would be..to close one's eyes to the theophanism on which this book insists.
190919th Cent. Oct. 676 This *theophanous land. |