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‖ pleroma|plɪˈrəʊmə|
[a. Gr. πλήρωµα that which fills, a complement, f. πληροῦν to make full, f. πλήρης full.]
1. Fullness, plenitude;
a. in Gnostic theology, The spiritual universe as the abode of God and of the totality of the Divine powers and emanations.
1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. i. ii. ii. v. (1833) 62/2 He placed in the pleroma (so the Gnostics called the habitation of the Deity) thirty æons. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. iii. (1845) 58 One of these later emanations passed the boundaries of the Pleroma, which was the abode of the Deity, and there coming in contact with matter created the world. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. (1886) 100 For this totality [of the Divine powers] Gnostic teachers had a technical term, the pleroma or plenitude.
b. Used in reference to Colossians ii. 9, where the Eng. versions from 1388 have ‘fullness’:
Ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωµα τῆς θεότητος σωµατικῶς: Wyclif 1388, ‘For in hym dwellith bodilich al the fulnesse [1382 al plente, Vulg. plenitudo] of the Godhed’.
1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. 329 The ideal church is the pleroma of Christ, and the militant church must strive to become the pleroma. 1883Schaff Hist. Ch. II. xii. xcv. 777 The pleroma of the Godhead resides in Christ corporeally: so the pleroma of Christ, the plenitude of his graces and energies, resides in the church as his body.
2. Bot. = plerome. rare—0.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1895in Syd. Soc. Lex.
Hence pleromatic |plɪərəʊˈmætɪk| a., pertaining to the pleroma.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex. 977/2 The pleromatic kingdom was the name given by Stockenstrand to the whole powers which animate the world and the stars which fill the celestial space. 1879Schaff Person of Christ 56 The completeness or pleromatic fulness of the moral and religious character of Christ. |