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thnetopsychism|θniːtəʊpˈsaɪkɪz(ə)m|
[f. eccl. Gr. θνητόψῡχος maintaining the mortality of the soul (f. θνητός mortal + ψῡχή soul) + -ism.]
The doctrine (based on 1 Tim. vi. 16, ‘who only hath immortality’) held by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a Christian sect which arose in Arabia in the third century, who believed that the soul dies with the body, and is recalled to life with it at the Day of Judgement.
[1625Gill Sacr. Philos. iv. 63 The Thnatopsychitæ, which thought that the soule of man came to nought, as the soules of the beasts.] 1882–3W. F. Tillett in Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2218 The still grosser error of soul-death, or thnetopsychism. |