单词 | pantocrator |
释义 | Pantocratorn. A ruler of all things; (Christian Church) (a title given to) God or Christ as the Almighty. Hence: an artistic representation of Christ as ruler of the universe, esp. as an image in Byzantine and Orthodox iconography. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as ruler God almightyeOE kingeOE waldendeOE almightyOE heaven kingOE dihtendec1200 rectora1513 omnipotent1562 almight?1580 Pantocrator1759 Goramighty1816 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > religious angelc1425 Madonna1648 adoration1662 Buddha1829 nativity scene1855 Holy Family1875 Pantocrator1911 Sacred Heart1931 1702 P. King Hist. Apostles Creed ii. 90 For which reason, they called him..Pantocrator, which is the very word Almighty ascribed to God in the Creed.] 1759 Litany-bk. (United Brethren in Christ) 155 Who..In that Father's Bosom rested, T' whose Joy he the Pantocrator..All those shining Suns hath formed. 1804–8 W. Blake Milton I. iv O Satan,..art thou not Prince of the Starry Hosts And of the Wheels of Heaven, to turn the Mills day & night? Art thou not Newton's Pantocrator, weaving the Woof of Locke? 1854 Southern Literary Messenger 20 57 [Stars] hasting upon the highways of the sky, on some errand of peace or justice, from the great Pantocrator. 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. xii. 11 In the Apocalypse it is ‘Lord, All governing’—Pantocrator—which we weakly translate ‘Almighty’. 1911 O. M. Dalton Byzantine Art & Archaeol. xii. 672 In the Last Judgement, and as the Pantokrator, Christ is bearded, because in his function as Judge he is regarded as merely continuing his earthly mission. 1931 Antiquity 5 508 With the exception of the Pantocrator in the dome..the Daphni mosaics belong to the pictorial, representational, Hellenic tradition. 1947 C. Stewart Byzantine Legacy v. 111 The condition of the Church of Christ Pantocrator is typical of many. 1962 New Statesman 25 May 768/3 It [sc. a cathedral tapestry] fails to achieve the commanding presence of a Byzantine pantocrator. 1995 Holiday Which? Sept. 164/1 Most of the cathedral is closed off inside, but the fine Christ the Pantocrator mosaic over the altar is some compensation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1759 |
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