| 释义 |
▪ I. † ineˈxistency1 Obs.
[f. in-2 + existency: see inexistent a.1 and -ency.]
= inexistence1; also (with pl.), something inexistent or inherent (cf. existency 2).
1674Brevint Saul at Endor 382 This Moral Capacity is grown into a true Natural Inexistency or Conjunction. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 346 The ancients held forms, ideas, and truths, to be eternal..in the Divine Mind..They were not God, nor attributes, nor yet distinct substances, but inexistencies in Him: which inexistency was a very convenient term, implying something that was both a substance and not a substance, and so carrying the advantages of either.
▪ II. † inexistency2 Obs.
[f. in-3 + existency: see inexistent a.2 and -ency.]
= inexistence2.
1659Stanley Hist. Philos. xii. (1701) 485/2 The Dogmatists take away Hippocentaures, instancing them as examples of Inexistency. |