单词 | mana |
释义 | manan. Power, authority, or prestige; spec. (in Polynesian and Melanesian religions) an impersonal supernatural power which can be associated with people or with objects and which can be transmitted or inherited. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] i-waldeOE armOE craftOE mightOE poustiea1275 mound?a1300 powerc1300 force1303 mighta1325 wielda1325 mightiheada1382 mightinessc1390 mightheada1400 mightinga1400 puissance1420 mightfulnessa1425 vallente1475 potence1483 state1488 potencya1500 potestation?c1500 potent1512 puissantness1552 sinew1560 puissancy1562 potentness1581 powerableness1591 powerfulnessc1595 potestatea1600 pollency1623 potentiality1627 potentialness1668 poust1827 mana1843 magnum force1977 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > magic power medicine1767 mana1843 anting-anting1890 orenda1902 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iii. ix. 371/2 Mana—command, authority, power. 1855 R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui 279 The natives..feel..that with the land, their mana, or power, has gone likewise. 1858 Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 367 The most loyal reverence for the Queen's name and ‘mana’..[is] to be found in Ngapuhi. 1877 R. H. Codrington Let. in F. M. Müller Lect. Orig. & Growth Relig. (1878) 54 There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which acts in all kinds of ways for good and evil, and which it is of the greatest advantage to possess or control. This is Mana. a1910 W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) i. 17 What made things act was the mysterious energy in them, and the more awful they were, the more of this mana they possessed. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 264/2 Notions of the type of mana or orenda are of ‘a nascently philosophic order’. 1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xii. 204 It is not merely spirits and deities that loom as sacred, but also the impersonal force Melanesians call ‘mana’. 1965 Listener 2 Dec. 920/2 Warhol has always provided a good example of the kind of mana which emanates from certain chosen individuals in modern society. 1983 C. Thubron Among Russians (1985) iii. 69 Frescoed saints still brood about the walls of the Church..but are faded to shadows, their mana gone. Compounds General attributive and with participles. ΚΠ 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 208 A fearful cringing before some mysterious mana-charged object. 1937 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 197 Their religious beliefs centre round a concept of magic of the ‘mana’ type i.e. vague, abstract, impersonal power. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. v. 274 He has a mana-circle in Tel Aviv. 1973 H. L. Nieburg Culture Storm iv. 73 Rulers are invested with mana-power and existing power-relations are mythicized into sacred institutions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843 |
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