单词 | exinanition |
释义 | exinanitionn. 1. literary and technical. The action or process of emptying or exhausting something material or immaterial; the state of being emptied or exhausted, exhaustion. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > emptying avoidancea1398 voidance1398 voidingc1435 empting1440 teeming?1468 emptying1552 emptening1561 evacuation1593 evacuating1594 exinanition1603 depletion1656 exhaustion1796 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. viii. 556 It [sc. learning] doth..purifie..and subtilize them [sc. minds] even vnto exinanition or evacuation [Fr. l'exinanition]. a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 118 Replenishing the world, after that great exinanition by the generall deluge. 1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 122 Some..cared not to afford common assistance to Nature, and so haue dyed through exinanition and want of strength. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 6 A life whose stories tell of..fastings to the exinanition of spirits. c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses v. 81 Whether the outward signs be Repletion and Fulness, or Exhinanition and Lowness of his Flesh. 1789 W. Merrick Classical Farrier (ed. 2) 189 It has been in such cases as proceed from exinanition, that is, when the state of the blood is very low. ?1819 S. T. Coleridge in Marginalia (1984) II. 135 Dante..asks for an evacuation and exinanition of all Self in him (Dante) like the unsheathing of Marsyas—so that he (Dante) might become a mere Vessel..of the Deity. 1849 A. H. Clough Duty in Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 184 Life at very birth destroyed. Atrophy, exinanition! 1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Exinanition, a thorough and complete emptying. 1903 Homœopathic Rec. Sept. 418 The first task to be essayed was..the checking of the vomiting, which was bringing her to exinanition from hunger. 2012 T. Keneally Daughters of Mars 10 Then he prepared a medical certificate,..which said Mrs. Durance had died of cancer, nephritis, and exinanition. 2. Chiefly in religious language. The action or process of emptying oneself or another of pride, self-will, or dignity; abasement, humiliation; an instance of this; a state of humiliation. ΚΠ 1603 J. Manningham Diary 3 Apr. (1976) 226 Exinanition of Christ's glory on earth typified in the auncient jewish manner of coronation. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 143 This exinanition of our selves is acceptable in the sight of God. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xv. 129 He was to take upon him all the affronts, miseries and exinanitions of the most miserable. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. lviii. 59 I'l press still Th' Exinanition of my o'regrown Will. 1686 H. More Let. 16 Jan. in J. Norris Theory & Regulation Love (1688) 187 The scope they aym at..is a perfect exinanition of our selves, that we may be filled with the sense of God. b. Theology. Of Christ, with reference to Philippians 2:8. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] bismerc893 humiliationc1386 lowinga1398 dejectionc1450 avale?a1513 depression?1531 embasing1551 abasement1561 debasement1593 mortification1598 exinanitiona1631 demissiona1638 dejectment1656 depressure1656 dismounting1677 letting down1827 take-down1858 snubbing1861 scoring1893 deflation1958 a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §5 I lay down my life for my sheepe... Christ said this now, because his Passion was begun; for all his conversations here were degrees of exinanition. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed 200 His exinanition consisted in..the assumption of the form of a servant. 1705 B. Kennett Brief Expos. Apostles Creed ii. 46 The Apostle visibly makes this Exinanition, or emptying of himself, antecedent to the great Act of Humiliation. 1791 N.-Y. Mag. Feb. 101/1 I am far from attempting to explain the mode of the exinanition of our Lord. 1840 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. i. 44 The death of the God-man is only the throwing off of his exinanition (or humiliation). 1918 New-Church Rev. Jan. 42 The Scriptures treat of..the birth, growth and exinanition of the Savior of mankind. 1981 Harvard Theol. Rev. 74 59 This concealment or occultatio belongs to Christ's exinanition. 2011 O. D. Crisp Revisioning Christology v. 108 (footnote) He [sc. Heinrich Heppe] speaks of Christ's state of humiliation or exinanition in becoming human in terms of his divinity ‘being hidden’ in his appearance in the form of a servant (kenosis). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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