单词 | materia prima |
释义 | materia priman. A formless primordial substance regarded as the original material of the universe; fundamental matter. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > matter or corporeal substance > first or uncreated matter hylec1400 materia prima1551 prakriti1785 protyle1886 prima materia1906 a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 52v How eloquently done de materia prima her tonges clapp.] 1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 137 If we agree with the Philosophers that there is (Materia prima)..the same (Materia prima) beyng as it were (substancia) that altereth not. 1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. *3 How materia prima and mysterium magnam, was the beginning of all thinges. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 229 The substance or matter that hath neither forme nor any colour, which they call Materia prima, is a subject capable of all formes. 1665 J. Locke Let. Jan. (1976) I. 182 The young munks..dispute as eagerly for materia prima, as if they were to make their diner on it. a1721 M. Prior Ess. & Dialogues of Dead: Lock & Montaigne in Dialogues of Dead & Other Wks. (1907) 240 When he [sc. Descartes] gave Us his subtil matter, he only new Christened Aristotles Materia prima. 1882 Catholic World July 470 Materia prima, or first matter..is the first subject of all substantial changes, existing per se in all bodies. 1905 W. James in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 2 281 ‘Pure experience’..was the name I gave to the materia prima of everything. 1961 Times 28 Dec. 11/4 A continuum of active or quiescent energy which..would reintroduce a materia prima to the satisfaction of metaphysicians. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 8/2 Cloth..finally displaced wood from its symbolic position as materia prima among the substances used or worked by man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1551 |
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