α. 1800s– etherialisation, 1800s– etherialization, 1900s– aetherialization.
β. 1800s– etherealisation, 1800s– etherealization, 1900s– aetherealization.
单词 | etherealization |
释义 | etherealizationn.α. 1800s– etherialisation, 1800s– etherialization, 1900s– aetherialization. β. 1800s– etherealisation, 1800s– etherealization, 1900s– aetherealization. 1. The action or process of making a thing or being ethereal or incorporeal; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > action of becoming immaterial etherealization1824 dematerialization1884 dematerializing1956 1824 Atlantic Mag. Nov. 76 Having conferred upon this mortal super-human eyes and ears, the only senses which admit of due etherialization, the ‘shape’ converts him into a celestial essence. 1872 W. R. Greg Enigmas of Life vii. 287 Why seek after a fidelity of delineation or an etherealisation of conception of which the consequences must be so fatal and benumbing? 1873 W. Pater Stud. Hist. Renaissance iv. 53 The wasting and etherealisation of Death. 1895 G. H. B. Wright Was Israel ever in Egypt vi. 143 Allowing for a certain amount of advantage in thus describing God, lest by his etherealisation into a bare concept we should entirely lose the object of our love and reverence. 1938 H. B. Charlton Shakespearian Comedy ii. 31 Their state of spiritual ecstasy is revealed by the progressive ætherialisation of their sustenance. 1988 R. Wollheim Interview in J. Golding Visions of Modern (1994) 348 Florentine painting..is constantly haunted by the aetherealization of colour. 2010 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 40 192 Michelangelo's snowman is the ultimate example of the etherialization of sculpture. 2. The result of etherealizing something; an etherealized thing or being. ΚΠ 1841 M. E. M. Jones Alpha 105 Poetry is the power, the Life, The universal, ever rife, In the depth and in the height Etherealization bright. 1867 J. H. Stirling tr. A. Schwegler Handbk. Hist. Philos. xvi. 115 He [sc. Aristotle] conceives the moral element..as etherealization, spiritualization of the physical. 1891 A. A. Judson Why she became Spiritualist vii. 153 We, who have actually seen many temporary materializations of the ‘dead’, and many etherealizations of them. 1911 J. C. Walters Phases of Dickens ii. ii. 139 He began..with dreams more than realities, with etherealizations rather than flesh and blood. 1913 Independent 2 Oct. 23/1 I am not so sure of that etherealization called the soul, that undertakes to lord it so egotistically over the body. 1920 O. Bland Adventures Mod. Occultist iii. 49 To the human eye alone there is no means of distinguishing between the etherealizations of the psychoplasm of the believer and the identical luminous phenomena which occur when there is a materialization of the actual spirit. 2003 C. Palmer Philip K. Dick ii. xi. 213 What he had seen through the doorway had been a figure of a woman, which can be seen as an etherealization of Donna. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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