| 释义 |
pansophy|ˈpænsəʊfɪ|
Also 7 -sophie, 7–8 ‖ pansophia.
[f. Gr. παν- all + σοϕία wisdom; forming an abstr. n. to Gr. πάνσοϕος adj. ‘all-wise’.]
1. Universal or cyclopædic knowledge; a scheme or cyclopædic work embracing the whole body of human knowledge.
In its Latin form used by J. A. Comenius (Komensky) of Moravia in 1639, in the title of a book, Prodromus Pansophiæ, giving a sort of prospectus of a universal cyclopædia.
1642Hartlib Ref. Schooles 90 The seven parts of the Temple of Christian Pansophie. 1651Collier Comenius' Patterne Univ. Knowl. 16 Pansophy therefore by wholesome Counsel takes all things in generall into its consideration, that it may evidently and most clearly appeare, how lesser things are, and come to be, subordinate to the greater [etc.]. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. i. 50 The Encyclopedia's and Pansophia's, that even men of an elevated genius have aimed at. 1882Athenæum 4 Mar. 279/1 Comenius's scheme..was to collect and maintain learned men from all nations, and to give them leisure for their special studies, and generally to foster ‘Pansophy’. 1899Academy 29 July 108/2 Komensky and Hartlib tried to found in England a ‘Christian Academy of Pansophy’.
2. The claim or pretension to universal knowledge.
1792Boothby On Burke's App. Whigs 265 The French philophers..affect..a sort of pansophy, or universality of command over the opinions of men. 1886Standard 30 Dec. 2/1 His pansophy teaches him that the affections are the cause of all the misery in the world. |