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单词 first matter
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first matter
first matter n. [after post-classical Latin materia prima, itself after ancient Greek πρώτη ὕλη (see materia prima n.)] Philosophy a formless primordial substance considered as the original material of the universe. Also figurative.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. xx. 665 Þe primordial and firste matere [þ]at [MS it] was in þe bygynnynge of þe worlde noȝt distingued by certeyne forme... Þat mater was..withoute ordre and wiþoute liȝte.
1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lviii. 564 Vncreated Chaos, or Hyla, or first Matter.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. (1739) i. xl. 60 Though the Saxons were in name our first matter.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 472 One first matter all, Indu'd with various forms, various degrees Of substance. View more context for this quotation
a1687 H. More App. to De Philos. Cabbal. (1713) viii. 183 That Hyle or first Matter is mere Possibility of Being, according to Aristotle.
1882 Catholic World July 470 Materia prima, or first matter..is the first subject of all substantial changes, existing per se in all bodies.
1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 256 The first result of Creation was First Matter, without form of dimensions, qualities, properties, tendencies, lacking movement and repose, raw primordial chaos, hyle, which was yet neither light nor darkness.
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