单词 | futurition |
释义 | futuritionn. Philosophy. 1. a. Existence or occurrence in the future; future existence or accomplishment. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > present or future state of existence worldeOE futurition1641 1641 D. Cawdrey Three Serm. 72 In the one there shall be a succession of punishments, and so there shall be a respect of futurition or time to come. 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica ii. 64 A certainty of divine Prescience touching the precise period of every mans life, as also the order or maner of its futurition. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1682) I. 115 In which words is clearly expressed the futurition of salvation certain by him. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 383 Is it imaginable, that the great Means of the World's Redemption, should..hang so loose in respect of its futurition, as [etc.]. 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. ii. vi. 137 The word shall..does not mean, to promise..in the third person, but the mere futurition of an event. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2524/1 While foreknowledge may insure the certain futurition of a volition. b. quasi-concrete. A future event or existence; a futurity. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > a future event futurition1668 1668 Shiells in Naphtali Pref. 49 Let us not be anxious about futuritions. a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 996 There is a futurition of glory for the Soul. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 107 Seeing thorough the possibilities and futuritions of each [world]. 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 144 Some mere futurition, as metaphysicians love to speak, some event in futurity. 2. The quality, attribute, or fact of being future; the fact or circumstance that (something specified) will be. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > state or condition of being future futurity1637 futurition1666 futureness1829 tomorrowness1897 1666 W. Spurstowe Spiritual Chymist (1668) 79 Futurition in respect of existency of things, is no prejudice to the Eye of Faith, in the beholding of them as present. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xvii. 153 When God decrees that anything shall be, it has from that a certain futurition. 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will iv. viii. 251 The Acts and State of the Wills of moral Agents, which had a fix'd Futurition from Eternity. 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 462 The Romans..had..forms expressing futurition and desire. 1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture i. vii. 158 If there is any law of futurition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1641 |
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