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单词 anima mundi
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anima mundin.

Brit. /ˌanᵻmə ˈmʊndi/, U.S. /ˌænəmə ˈmʊndi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin anima mundi.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin anima mundi ‘soul of the world’ (4th cent.) < classical Latin anima soul (see anima n.) + mundī , genitive of mundus world (see mundane adj.), apparently after Hellenistic Greek ψυχὴ τοῦ κόσμου . Compare world-soul n., world-spirit n. (b) at world n. Compounds 8.In early modern English occasionally used with Latin case inflections (compare quot. 1584). O.E.D. Suppl. (1972) gives the pronunciation as (æ:nimă mɒ·ndəi) /ˌænɪmə ˈmʌndaɪ/.
‘The soul of the world’: the animating principle, a power or spirit supposed by early philosophers to be present throughout the material universe, organizing and giving form to the whole and to all its parts, and regulating change and movement.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > divine quality or power > diffused throughout universe
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1525 T. Rychard Walton's Bk. Comfort iii. sig. Ij Furdermore also in creation of the mene spiret of treble kend, wyche som phylosophres as plato & hys foloers called anima mundi, the soule of the world.
1584 R. Scot Disc. Diuels & Spirits xxxiv, in Discouerie Witchcraft 557 They [sc. the old philosophers] gaue thervnto a due reuerence, in that they acknowledged and intituled it Animam mundi, The soule or life of the world.
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xv. 381 A certain Anima Mundi, or Common Soul in the World.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 561 All the Perfection of a Mundane Soul, may perhaps be attributed to God in some sence, and be [printed he] called, Quasi-Anima Mundi, As it were the Soul thereof.
a1704 J. Locke Wks. (1722) I. 512 Aristotle..uses it [sc. ϕύσις] for a Plastick Power, or a kind of Anima Mundi, presiding over the material World, and producing the Order and Regularity of Motions, Formations and Generations in it.
a1748 I. Watts Improvem. Mind ii. v, in Coll. Wks. (1753) V. 340 A Platonist who believes an anima mundi, an universal soul of the world to pervade all bodies, to act in and by them according to their nature, and..to give them their nature and their special powers.
1803 Monthly Rev. Aug. 411 Why does not the soul unite with that universal spirit, the anima mundi, of which it originally formed a part?
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 346 I find the notion of some sort of anima mundi thinking in all of us to be a more promising hypothesis.
1957 G. Boas Dominant Themes of Mod. Philos. viii. 280 This was not the first time that a correlation between the anima mundi and the Holy Spirit had been made; indeed Abelard had been condemned at the Council of Sens in 1140 for identifying the two.
1993 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. e5/4 Our usual relationship to what in classical times was called the anima mundi, or soul of the world, has been numbed, anesthetized.
2004 J. C. Miller Transcendent Function i. 1 These benefits came at a cost: a disunion with the undifferentiated consciousness that previously connected people;..a repudiation of the anima mundi, the soul of the world, that created the fabric of community; [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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