| 单词 | evening knowledge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevening knowledge evening knowledge n. [after post-classical Latin cognitio vespertina (early 5th cent. in St Augustine; also in Aquinas)] Philosophy (chiefly historical) the knowledge of things in their actual nature, as opposed to morning knowledge (morning knowledge n. at morning n., adv., and int. Compounds 5), which is the knowledge of the causes or divine archetypal ideas of things. ΚΠ 1621 R. Jenison Height Israels Idolatrie 31 This knowledge, of S. Augustine is called scientia matutina & diurna, morning and day-knowledge: Or secondly, in the proper natures of the things themselues; and this is called vespertina, euening-knowledge, as being more obscure then the former. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. iv. 23 Knowledg..from the Effects of Things; which because it is more dark and obscure, than that which ariseth from the Causes of things, they [sc. the schoolmen] tearmed Evening Knowledg. 1836 R. W. Emerson Prospects in Nature viii. 91 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,..but that of God is a morning knowledge. 1994 J. P. Walsh Knowl. of Angels 262 He had desired the knowledge of angels, in whom there was no difference between morning knowledge and evening knowledge. < as lemmas |
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