| 单词 | morning knowledge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmorning knowledge morning knowledge n. [after post-classical Latin cognitio matutina (early 5th cent. in St Augustine; also in Aquinas)] Philosophy (chiefly historical) the knowledge of the causes or divine archetypal ideas of things, as opposed to ‘evening knowledge’, which is of things in their actual nature. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > wisdom > morning-knowledge morning knowledge1621 1621 R. Jenison Height Israels Idolatrie 31 This knowledge, of S. Augustine is called scientia matutina & diurna, morning and day-knowledge. 1836 R. W. Emerson Prospects in Nature viii. 91 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,..but that of God is a morning knowledge. 1994 J. P. Walsh Knowl. of Angels 262 He had desired the knowledge of angels, in whom there was no difference between morning knowledge and evening knowledge. < as lemmas |
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