单词 | ens |
释义 | ensn. 1. Philosophy. a. Something which has existence; a ‘being’, entity, as opposed to an attribute, quality, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity body1587 ens1614 real1615 beënt1865 1614 T. Adams in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. ciii. 19 Eternity is properly the duration of an uncreated Ens. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 71 An ens is such naturally, that it should act or suffer something. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 323 Men have needlessly multiplied Entia. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 113 For it's necessary that every ens or being be derived from the first Being. b. An entity regarded apart from any predicate but that of mere existence. Also, the predicable ‘ens’ regarded as an abstract notion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > existence as an abstract notion ensa1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. H3 The quiddity of Ens. 1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 66 Ens is represented as Father of the Prædicaments.] 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 41 Ens without weight, and substance without shade. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic iv. 90 I cannot see why ens is not thinkable. a. = essence n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] pitheOE i-cundeeOE roota1325 substancec1330 juicec1380 marrowa1382 formc1385 acta1398 quidditya1398 substantial forma1398 inward1398 savourc1400 inwardc1450 allaya1456 essencya1475 being1521 bottom1531 spirit?1534 summary1548 ecceity1549 core1556 flower1568 formality1570 sum and substance1572 alloy1594 soul1598 inwardness1605 quid1606 fibre1607 selfness1611 whatness1611 essentialityc1616 propera1626 the whole shot1628 substantiala1631 esse1642 entity1643 virtuality1646 ingeny1647 quoddity1647 intimacy1648 ens1649 inbeing1661 essence1667 interiority1701 intrinsic1716 stamen1758 character1761 quidditas1782 hyparxis1792 rasa1800 bone1829 what1861 isness1865 inscape1868 as-suchness1909 Wesen1959 1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. 9 The dark fiery soule conceiveth the Ens and Essence of the Divine light in her selfe. 1730 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 288 It is the very Ens, or Being most pure of Flame. ΚΠ 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §109. 178 Weigh its weight of fresh Ens well ground together. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 327 Reduce the Mercury of the Vulgar into its first liquid Ens. 1715 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (ed. 2) Ens Primum, the most efficacious Part of any natural Mixt Body. Ens Veneris, sublimation of equal Parts of the calcin'd Powder or Cyprus Vitriol, and of Sal Armoniack. 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1586 |
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