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单词 mesothesis
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mesothesisn.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: meso- comb. form, Greek θέσις.
Etymology: < meso- comb. form + ancient Greek θέσις setting, placing (see thesis n.), after antithesis n., prothesis n., and synthesis n. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mesǫ·þĭsis) /mɛˈsɒθɪsɪs/.
Obsolete.
Something interposed, serving to connect or reconcile antithetical agencies or principles.
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the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > something interposed > as means of reconciliation
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1829 S. T. Coleridge Let. 12 Aug. (1971) 812 No living balance..can exist as the Mesothesis except by virtue of an identity as the prothesis.
1831–2 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) II. 290 Both alike have quenched the Holy Spirit, as the mesothesis of the two.
1849 J. A. Froude Nemesis of Faith 157 The final mesothesis for the reconciling the two great rivals, Science and Revelation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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