单词 | entheastic |
释义 | entheasticn.adj. rare. A person who claims to be possessed or inspired by a divine power; a person in a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration. With the and plural agreement: such people collectively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun] > person having seera1382 Alumbrado1600 illuminate1602 enthusiastic1605 enthusian1611 enthusiast1612 inspirado1664 entheastic1678 inspired1749 Maharishi1785 muni1785 rishi1794 Mahatma1882 1678 J. Brown Quakerisme Path-way to Paganisme 34 Nor will the many Enthusiasts, or Entheasticks, or Ecstaticks and the like, who have been..deceived and deluded, suffer us to asserte the Other. 1794 T. Taylor in tr. Plotinus Five Bks. Introd. p. xxiii The entheastic (or such as are agitated by a divine fury). B. adj. Characteristic of or relating to divine inspiration; divinely inspired. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective] inspiredc1450 illumined1526 godly-wise1532 revealed1533 illuminate1563 enthusiast1578 lightsome1587 enthusiastical1588 entheate1603 enthusiac1603 enthusiastic1603 illuminated1606 illightened1609 enthean1612 theopneust1647 illuminative1649 entheous1682 revelational1693 entheal1736 entheastic1804 theopneustic1838 theophanic1884 inspirational1888 theophanous1909 Beatrician1943 1804 T. Taylor tr. Proclus in F. Sydenham & T. Taylor tr. Plato Wks. I. 139 The recondite and occult good of fables requires a certain mystic and entheastic (i. e. divinely inspired) intelligence. 1843 Churchman July 475 Like Alcuin and most of the initiated who blended the high magical philosophy with religion, he had an entheastic belief in the harmony of numbers. 1911 The Word Dec. 150 While in the entheastic state, they divine the secrets of existence. 2013 I. Tanaseanu-Döbler Theurgy in Late Antiq. I. v. 236 Entheastic theology is theurgic. DerivativesΚΠ 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Entheastical, inspired. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adverb] inspiredly1591 entheastically1794 1794 T. Taylor in tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece III. Notes 266 Wisdom..delivered..entheastically, or according to a deific energy. 1816 T. Taylor in tr. Proclus Six Bks. II. Notes p. xxxv/2 It is possible for those to energize entheastically, or according to a divinely inspired energy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1678 |
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