单词 | pansophy |
释义 | pansophyn. Now chiefly historical. Universal or encyclopedic knowledge; a scheme, work, or programme attempting to embrace the whole body of human knowledge. Also: belief in or advocacy of such a scheme.Chiefly with reference or allusion to Comenius's scheme for creating a universal encyclopaedia of human knowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > large amount of knowledge > [noun] encyclopaedia1531 cyclopaedia1636 pansophy1642 pantology1813 tree of knowledge1848 library- the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > large amount of knowledge > [noun] > possession of universality1605 polymathy1642 all-knowingness1674 pansophia1674 pansophy1792 polyhistory1799 multiscience1816 encyclopaedism1833 universalism1838 omnisciencea1845 know-everythingism1855 pansophism1868 ?1641 C. Culpeper Let. in 17th-cent. Polit. & Financial Papers (1996) 159 I..conceiue that beste examples..are the neereste way to wisdome, &..Mr Commenius in his pansophia for thinges & his Janua for words, & Mr Pell in the mathematicks doe bothe of them driue at this scope.] 1642 S. Hartlib tr. J. A. Comenius Reformation of Schooles 90 The seven parts of the Temple of Christian Pansophie. 1651 J. Collier tr. J. A. Comenius Patterne Universall Knowl. 16 Pansophy therefore by wholesome Counsel takes all things in generall into its consideration, that it may evidently and most clearly appeare, how lesser things are, and come to be, subordinate to the greater [etc.]. 1672 E. Benlowes Oxonii Encomium sig. D Thy Theater, Great Sheldon,..And Bodley's stately learned Pile,..also Seldens Heap of Wonders..Arts triple Pantheon, Wisdoms Pansophy. 1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 265 The French philophers..affect..a sort of pansophy, or universality of command over the opinions of men. 1882 Athenæum 4 Mar. 279/1 Comenius's scheme..was to collect and maintain learned men from all nations, and to give them leisure for their special studies, and generally to foster ‘Pansophy’. 1886 Standard 30 Dec. 2/1 His pansophy teaches him that the affections are the cause of all the misery in the world. 1910 ‘T. C. Panopolis’ (title) Peter Pan's pansophy. 1939 Isis 30 430 His ‘pansophy’, to which he attached far more value than to his educational views, was but a childish mixture of encyclopaedism, ethics, chiliasm and vague ideas of many kinds. 1995 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Dec. 21 Both Comenius and Hodin..cherished their native culture and that of Europe as a whole; and Hodin shared something of his fellow countryman's pansophy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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