单词 | hegemonicon |
释义 | hegemoniconn. A ruling or governing power; spec. human reason. Also: the supreme power in the universe. Cf. hegemon n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > one who or that which influences > controlling or prevailing rulera1398 regenta1450 hegemonicon1583 gianta1631 1583 C. Rosdell tr. J. Calvin Comm. Romanes xii. f. 163 The minde which is the most excellent parte of vs, and whereunto the Philosophers ascribe the principalitie. For they cal it Hegemonicon, that is, the prince or principall spirite, and reason is faigned to be a very wise Queene. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 26 Others, as the Stoicks, to account reason, which they call the Hegemonicon, to be the common Mercury conducting without error those that give themselves obediently to be led accordingly. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Freewill (1838) 46 This faculty of..power over ourselves..belongs to the hegemonicon of the soul. 1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism ii. v. 241/2 Cicero hath remark'd the wild Conceits of the Stoicks touching (the Hegemonicon of the World, or) the Godhead. 1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain v. 177 Spirit, or the principle of religious faith or obedience, should be the master principle, the hegemonicon. 1898 G. H. Rendall Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself (ed. 2) iii. iii. lxxii Cleanthes regards the sun, the Hegemonikon of the world, as recruited by exhalation from the sea. 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 15 163 Reason or the hegemonicon is the governing power. 1978 G. B. Kerferd in J. M. Rist Stoics v. 132 Truth is corporeal since it is..a particular state of the corporeal Hēgemonikon—that is to say, Reason or Logos as the authoritative part of the human soul. 1998 J. B. Schneewind Invention of Autonomy x. 213 This reflexive hegemonicon..enables us..to consider carefully before we act. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1583 |
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