释义 |
ultraˈfidian, a. [f. the L. phrase ultrā fidem ‘beyond faith’.] Going beyond mere faith; blindly credulous. Also ultraˈfidianism.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. viii, Sir Thomas Brown..could answer all the objections of the Devil and Reason ‘with the old resolution he had learnt of Tertullian: Certum est quia impossibile est!’.. Now this I call Ultra-fidianism. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 96 The great moralist, who balanced an ultrafidian credulity in the supernatural with an extraordinary degree of scepticism in things natural and human. 1865Reader 14 Jan. 43/2 It must be, however, a strangely incurious and ultrafidian mind that can consent to rest there..simply at another's bidding. |