aeoneonn.

Brit.

/ˈiːən/,

/ˈiːɒn/, U.S.

/ˈiən/,

/ˈiˌɑn/

Forms: 1500s aeone, 1500s– aeon, 1600s– eon, 1700s– aion.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin aeon; Greek αἰών.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin aeon abstract and eternal entity, emanation from a good principle (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), eternity (late 3rd cent.), immeasurable period of time (5th cent.) and its etymon ancient Greek αἰών lifetime, age, generation, long space of time, eternity, in Hellenistic Greek also defined period of time, epoch, in Byzantine Greek also the title of various divine beings < the same Indo-European base as ay adv.With to the aion of aions , through aeons of aeons (see quots. 1768, 1834 at sense 2a), compare the discussion at world n. Phrases 2.

1. In Gnostic theology: any of a number of emanations of God, taking part in the creation and government of the universe.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > origination from divine essence

proceeding1564

emanation1570

aeon1581

promanation1662

eradiation1678

outcoming1823

efflation1862

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > in Gnosticism

aeon1581

1581 W. Fulke Reioynder Bristows Replie 17 The Valentinians did not call their Aeones goddes, but emissions of the first great inuisible & infinite Aeone.

1629 D. Featley Cygnea Cantio 18 One of Valentinus his fained Æons.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 138/1 But Intellect or Æon hath in himself proper Intellectuall life.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 212 The next considerable appearance of a Multitude of Self-existent Deities, seems to be in the Valentinian Thirty Gods and Æons.

1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed 84 These Thirty Aions they fancied to lead an idle and un-active Life, within an imaginary Space, Pleroma, or Fulness.

1727 J. Alexander Primitive Doctr. Christ's Divinity iii. 36 The Father of all..ought not to be number'd with the other Æons: He that was not prolated, and self-existent, with those that were prolated, and begotten in time.

1844 A. Norton Evid. Genuineness Gospels III. iii. vii. 136 Wisdom, the last of the Æons, brought forth an abortive offspring without union with her spouse.

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. iii. 228 More commonly she was deemed a personification of a Divine attribute, an individual Æon.

1936 G. L. Prestige God in Patristic Thought x. 197 According to the Valentinians..the abortive and degenerate fruit of the final aeon in the divine Absolute (pleroma) was homoousios with angelic (‘spiritual’) beings.

1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate ii. xxxv. 278 There was a single monograph in English, a summary that presented Christ as a Jewish Gnostic aeon who had appeared to Adam as a snake, and then to Moses.

a. An age of the universe, an immeasurable period of time; the whole duration of the world, or of the universe; eternity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun]

echenessc825

everlastingnessa1425

eternity1587

aeviternity1596

eternness1606

eternal1622

aeon1647

aevum1660

forever1741

Ewigkeit1877

the world > time > period > [noun] > immeasurable period or aeon

aeon1647

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 136/1 For such is the nature of Æon or Eternity.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 458 He shall endure, not simply to the Aion, that is, for ever, but to the Aion of Aions.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii. 92/2 The mysterious Course of Providence through Æons of Æons.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) iii. 147 The protracted eons of the Carboniferous period.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxix. 598 The last great aeon of God's dealings with mankind.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 152 That eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily.

1935 H. Heslop Last Cage Down ii. viii. 238 One could not help cogitating on the eternal limitlessness of the heavens. It adjectivized one's thoughts. One immediately began to think of infinite numbers and definitions—millions of miles, trillions of æons.

1996 Harper's Mag. Nov. 52/2 ‘Progressive creationists’, a bit farther down the spectrum, believe that God intervenes only rarely, once an aeon or so.

b. In singular and plural. Used poetically and hyperbolically of personal impressions, memories, etc.: an indefinitely long time; a good while.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time

seven daysOE

a while1297

dreichc1440

dreightc1450

yearsa1470

age1577

week1597

montha1616

patriarch's age1693

length1697

eternity1700

a month of Sundays1759

a week of Sundays1822

a week of Saturdays1831

dog's age1833

forever1833

while1836

aeon1880

donkey's years1916

light year1929

yonks1968

1880 I. D. Hardy Friend & Lover II. viii. 227 Was it an æon ago, in another world, that she had known him?—or was it yesterday?

1922 D. H. Lawrence in Poetry (Chicago) Nov. 60 Your pristine isolate integrity, lost aeons ago.

1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror iv. 82 A hideous gloom came over Judson... Six-thirty seemed æons ahead, like some dim, distant date lost in the mists of the future.

1958 ‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape viii. 128 A taxi..will take aeons. I'll run you out when it's all fixed.

1991 Vox July 61/4 An aeon later, feet touch firm ground.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 89 Everybody knows neo-Nazi gear went out aeons ago.

a. Geology. Usually in form eon. A major division of geological time, often subdivided into eras.Used nonspecifically in geology earlier in the 19th cent.: cf. quot. a1856 at sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun]

age1813

group1829

period1833

aeon1879

group1886

moment1933

1879 A. Winchell Syllabus Course Lect. Gen. Geol. 13 Time:—Arranged in Epochs, Periods, Ages and Times or Æons.

1892 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 143 461 The subdivisions to which we are led are the following:..I. The Astral æon, as it has been called, or that of liquidity. II. The Azoic æon, or that without life [etc.].

1933 C. Schuchert & C. O. Dunbar Textbk. Geol. (ed. 3) v. 70 It has recently been proposed to use the name Cryptozoic eon..for Pre-Cambrian time, and Phanerozoic eon..for all subsequent time.

1982 W. B. Harland et al. Geologic Time Scale ii. 7/2 The classification has developed traditionally on a hierarchical basis with eons (e.g. Phanerozoic), eras (e.g. Mesozoic), periods (e.g. Jurassic), [etc.].

1993 Nature 18 Feb. 601/3 Two billion years..is the compass of the Proterozoic Eon.

2007 T. Friend Third Domain vii. 200 The currently popular theory of early Earth, known as the Hadean Eon.

b. Geology and Astronomy. As a unit of measurement of time: one thousand million years.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years

hendecadOE

a week of yearsa1382

weekc1384

Olympiada1387

lustre1387

yearc1425

millenary1551

prenticeship1553

septenary1576

lustrum1590

quinquennal1590

seventy1590

septimane1603

quinquennie1606

threescore (years) and tena1616

duodecad1621

quinquennium1621

jubilee1643

quadrenniala1646

chiliad1653

septennary1659

septennium1660

triennial1661

millennium1664

tetraëterid1678

octennial1679

duodenary1681

quadrennium1779

septenniad1836

quinquenniad1842

milliad1843

tricentenary1846

triennium1847

vicennium1847

bimillenary1850

lustration1853

sexennium1858

septennate1874

quinquennial1877

pentad1880

sexennate1898

aeon1960

1960 Endeavour 19 87/2 A time as long as the Moon has existed, which we believe is about 4.5 aeons (an aeon being defined as 10⁹ years).

1974 Nature 15 Mar. 199 (heading) Evidence for a ∼4·5 aeon age of plagioclase clasts in a lunar highland breccia.

1999 F. J. Dyson Origins Life (ed. 2) (2000) ii. 30 Rocks that are reliably dated with age about 3 eons.

Compounds

Similative and instrumental, as aeon-battered, aeon-long, aeon-old, etc., adjectives; occasionally with nouns.

ΚΠ

1877 S. Cox Salvator Mundi v. 101 An earlier form of our word œonial, or œonian, which means aeon-long or age-long; a word not infrequent in our poetry and books of science.

1916 E. Sitwell & O. Sitwell 20th-cent. Harlequinade 25 From far within his æon-battered brain Well up those wanton wistful images.

1923 Blackwood's Mag. July 61/3 The aeon-long passage of water a-down the rock has worn its surface to a glassy smoothness.

1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 29 A storm-cock shrilled its aeon-old refrain.

1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakespeare vi. 53 In one of the most terrible aeon-moments of the play.

1989 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Dec. x. 4 Rama II, the hollow cylinder 30 miles long, would seemingly offer marvels enough as it slowly wakens from its eon-long slumber between the stars.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aeon
释义	aeoneonn. Brit. /ˈiːən/, /ˈiːɒn/, U.S. /ˈiən/, /ˈiˌɑn/ Forms: 1500s aeone, 1500s– aeon, 1600s– eon, 1700s– aion. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin aeon; Greek αἰών. Etymology: < post-classical Latin aeon abstract and eternal entity, emanation from a good principle (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), eternity (late 3rd cent.), immeasurable period of time (5th cent.) and its etymon ancient Greek αἰών lifetime, age, generation, long space of time, eternity, in Hellenistic Greek also defined period of time, epoch, in Byzantine Greek also the title of various divine beings < the same Indo-European base as ay adv.With to the aion of aions , through aeons of aeons (see quots. 1768, 1834 at sense 2a), compare the discussion at world n. Phrases 2. 1. In Gnostic theology: any of a number of emanations of God, taking part in the creation and government of the universe. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > nature of god(s) > origination from divine essence proceeding1564 emanation1570 aeon1581 promanation1662 eradiation1678 outcoming1823 efflation1862 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > in Gnosticism aeon1581 1581 W. Fulke Reioynder Bristows Replie 17 The Valentinians did not call their Aeones goddes, but emissions of the first great inuisible & infinite Aeone. 1629 D. Featley Cygnea Cantio 18 One of Valentinus his fained Æons. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 138/1 But Intellect or Æon hath in himself proper Intellectuall life. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 212 The next considerable appearance of a Multitude of Self-existent Deities, seems to be in the Valentinian Thirty Gods and Æons. 1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed 84 These Thirty Aions they fancied to lead an idle and un-active Life, within an imaginary Space, Pleroma, or Fulness. 1727 J. Alexander Primitive Doctr. Christ's Divinity iii. 36 The Father of all..ought not to be number'd with the other Æons: He that was not prolated, and self-existent, with those that were prolated, and begotten in time. 1844 A. Norton Evid. Genuineness Gospels III. iii. vii. 136 Wisdom, the last of the Æons, brought forth an abortive offspring without union with her spouse. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. iii. 228 More commonly she was deemed a personification of a Divine attribute, an individual Æon. 1936 G. L. Prestige God in Patristic Thought x. 197 According to the Valentinians..the abortive and degenerate fruit of the final aeon in the divine Absolute (pleroma) was homoousios with angelic (‘spiritual’) beings. 1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate ii. xxxv. 278 There was a single monograph in English, a summary that presented Christ as a Jewish Gnostic aeon who had appeared to Adam as a snake, and then to Moses. 2. a. An age of the universe, an immeasurable period of time; the whole duration of the world, or of the universe; eternity. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] echenessc825 everlastingnessa1425 eternity1587 aeviternity1596 eternness1606 eternal1622 aeon1647 aevum1660 forever1741 Ewigkeit1877 the world > time > period > [noun] > immeasurable period or aeon aeon1647 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 136/1 For such is the nature of Æon or Eternity. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 458 He shall endure, not simply to the Aion, that is, for ever, but to the Aion of Aions. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii. 92/2 The mysterious Course of Providence through Æons of Æons. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) iii. 147 The protracted eons of the Carboniferous period. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxix. 598 The last great aeon of God's dealings with mankind. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 152 That eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily. 1935 H. Heslop Last Cage Down ii. viii. 238 One could not help cogitating on the eternal limitlessness of the heavens. It adjectivized one's thoughts. One immediately began to think of infinite numbers and definitions—millions of miles, trillions of æons. 1996 Harper's Mag. Nov. 52/2 ‘Progressive creationists’, a bit farther down the spectrum, believe that God intervenes only rarely, once an aeon or so. b. In singular and plural. Used poetically and hyperbolically of personal impressions, memories, etc.: an indefinitely long time; a good while. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time seven daysOE a while1297 dreichc1440 dreightc1450 yearsa1470 age1577 week1597 montha1616 patriarch's age1693 length1697 eternity1700 a month of Sundays1759 a week of Sundays1822 a week of Saturdays1831 dog's age1833 forever1833 while1836 aeon1880 donkey's years1916 light year1929 yonks1968 1880 I. D. Hardy Friend & Lover II. viii. 227 Was it an æon ago, in another world, that she had known him?—or was it yesterday? 1922 D. H. Lawrence in Poetry (Chicago) Nov. 60 Your pristine isolate integrity, lost aeons ago. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror iv. 82 A hideous gloom came over Judson... Six-thirty seemed æons ahead, like some dim, distant date lost in the mists of the future. 1958 ‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape viii. 128 A taxi..will take aeons. I'll run you out when it's all fixed. 1991 Vox July 61/4 An aeon later, feet touch firm ground. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 89 Everybody knows neo-Nazi gear went out aeons ago. 3. a. Geology. Usually in form eon. A major division of geological time, often subdivided into eras.Used nonspecifically in geology earlier in the 19th cent.: cf. quot. a1856 at sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] age1813 group1829 period1833 aeon1879 group1886 moment1933 1879 A. Winchell Syllabus Course Lect. Gen. Geol. 13 Time:—Arranged in Epochs, Periods, Ages and Times or Æons. 1892 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 143 461 The subdivisions to which we are led are the following:..I. The Astral æon, as it has been called, or that of liquidity. II. The Azoic æon, or that without life [etc.]. 1933 C. Schuchert & C. O. Dunbar Textbk. Geol. (ed. 3) v. 70 It has recently been proposed to use the name Cryptozoic eon..for Pre-Cambrian time, and Phanerozoic eon..for all subsequent time. 1982 W. B. Harland et al. Geologic Time Scale ii. 7/2 The classification has developed traditionally on a hierarchical basis with eons (e.g. Phanerozoic), eras (e.g. Mesozoic), periods (e.g. Jurassic), [etc.]. 1993 Nature 18 Feb. 601/3 Two billion years..is the compass of the Proterozoic Eon. 2007 T. Friend Third Domain vii. 200 The currently popular theory of early Earth, known as the Hadean Eon. b. Geology and Astronomy. As a unit of measurement of time: one thousand million years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 1960 Endeavour 19 87/2 A time as long as the Moon has existed, which we believe is about 4.5 aeons (an aeon being defined as 10⁹ years). 1974 Nature 15 Mar. 199 (heading) Evidence for a ∼4·5 aeon age of plagioclase clasts in a lunar highland breccia. 1999 F. J. Dyson Origins Life (ed. 2) (2000) ii. 30 Rocks that are reliably dated with age about 3 eons. Compounds Similative and instrumental, as aeon-battered, aeon-long, aeon-old, etc., adjectives; occasionally with nouns. ΚΠ 1877 S. Cox Salvator Mundi v. 101 An earlier form of our word œonial, or œonian, which means aeon-long or age-long; a word not infrequent in our poetry and books of science. 1916 E. Sitwell & O. Sitwell 20th-cent. Harlequinade 25 From far within his æon-battered brain Well up those wanton wistful images. 1923 Blackwood's Mag. July 61/3 The aeon-long passage of water a-down the rock has worn its surface to a glassy smoothness. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 29 A storm-cock shrilled its aeon-old refrain. 1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakespeare vi. 53 In one of the most terrible aeon-moments of the play. 1989 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Dec. x. 4 Rama II, the hollow cylinder 30 miles long, would seemingly offer marvels enough as it slowly wakens from its eon-long slumber between the stars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1581
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