单词 | orthopraxy |
释义 | orthopraxyn. 1. Rightness of action (as distinct from or in addition to rightness of thought); right-doing, practical righteousness; correct practice. Frequently contrasted with orthodoxy.Now chiefly in contexts relating to the sociology and anthropology of religion. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > rightness of action orthopraxy1852 orthopraxis1951 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [noun] > right action or well-doing do-well1362 well-doingc1384 well working1542 rightdoing1556 eupraxy1675 orthopraxy1852 1852 T. T. Lynch Orthodoxy in Lett. to Scattered (1872) 270 I wish there was more orthopraxy in the world. 1859 Life Eben Henderson vi. 382 Let us have orthopraxy as well as orthodoxy. 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. iii. 86 What, then, constitutes grammatical orthopraxy? 1960 J. Parkes Found. Judaism & Christianity vi. 297 Historically however, rabbinic orthopraxy was lived with an entirely different background. 1971 Clergy Rev. 56 218 The orthodoxy of faith in the coming universal kingdom must constantly be made true in the ortho-praxy of creative flight forward with the world. 1988 J. L. Esposito Islam ii. 60 The ulama delineation of law as the embodiment of the straight path of Islam set the criteria for belief and behaviour in intellectual, social, and moral life and the pattern for..orthopraxy (correct practice). 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Mar. 49/1 Correct Islam is defined not so much by orthodoxy as by orthopraxy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > orthopaedics orthopaedy1840 orthopaedics1853 orthopraxy1865 1865 H. H. Bigg Orthopraxy Introd. 16 Orthopraxy is the legitimate culmination of mechanics as applied to therapeutics. 1866 Sat. Rev. 422 Why should not ‘Orthopraxy’ have a representative in the Council of Medical Education? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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