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单词 ens
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ensn.

/ɛnz/
Forms: Plural entia /ˈɛnʃɪə/.
Etymology: Late Latin ēns; a neuter present participle formed < Latin esse to be, on the supposed analogy of the compounds absēns, potēns, etc.
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.
2.
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.
b. Alchemy. (See quots.) Obsolete.
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).
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