单词 | nullibist |
释义 | nullibistn. Now historical. A person who affirms that a spirit or incorporeal being exists nowhere in the physical world. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > doctrines concerning the soul > [noun] > nullibism > believer in nullibist1668 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. Publisher's Pref. sig. A 3 That new fond Opinion of the Nullubists,..that God is no-where. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 100 Those other therefore because they so boldly affirm that a Spirit is Nullibi..have deservedly purchased to themselves the Name or Title of Nullibists. a1687 H. More Gen. Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) Pref. Gen., Scholia xxvii. 28 For what relates to the opinion of the Nullibists, I have abundantly demonstrated how wild a notion it is. a1751 P. Doddridge Course of Lect. (1763) ii. 99 We must go into the scheme of the Nullibists, and affirm that God is no where. 1803 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 14 490/1 He may consequentially, with respect to external beings, be a nullibist. 1936 Philos. Rev. 45 321 Laird himself is no nullibist. He cannot believe that selves are literally nowhere. 1967 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 28 111 And now the ghost of Henry More rises to pluck us by the sleeve. How, he asks can you equate this soul, which has wings and sits in trees, with the unextended, unlocated soul of that pernicious Nullibist, Descartes? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1668 |
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