单词 | non esse |
释义 | non essen. Metaphysics. Now rare. Non-being, non-existence. Cf. non-essence n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] noughtOE unbeing1435 non-beingc1443 nullity?1573 non esse1585 not-beinga1586 unexistence1593 nihilhood1602 non-essence?1605 inexistence1623 never-being1633 nonentity1643 non-existence1646 no-being1651 inexistency1660 nihility1678 cipherhooda1680 vacuitya1711 nothingness1766 nihilism1856 thinglessness1874 not-ness1933 nullness1949 1585 R. B. Difference Auncient & Latter Phisicke sig. Iviiiv And of esse cometh non esse. a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) xiv. 153 That absolute contradictions may meet together, in the same respect Esse & non Esse it seemes are espoused in a most neer and conjugal union. 1670 T. Case Mt. Pisgah iii. 33 We shall be able to apprehend God, though not to the utmost extent of his esse, yet without being beholding meerly to his non esse. a1680 S. Charnock Wks. (1684) I. 237 What an unhappiness is it, to have our affections set upon that which retains something of its non esse with its esse. 1980 Speculum 55 536 Permanence does not have to be a temporal metaphor. Of its own it means only esse as opposed to non-esse, whether this happens with change or without change, i.e., in time or not in time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585 |
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