acatalepsyn.

Brit.

/əˈkatəlɛpsi/,

/(ˌ)eɪˈkatəlɛpsi/, U.S.

/eɪˈkædlˌɛpsi/

Forms: 1600s acatalepsie, 1600s– acatalepsy.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin acatalepsia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin acatalepsia (1620 in a British source) < Hellenistic Greek ἀκαταληψία impossibility of direct apprehension < ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος that cannot be reached or touched, in Hellenistic Greek also incomprehensible, not comprehending ( < ἀ- a- prefix⁶ + καταληπτός : see cataleptic adj. and n.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -lepsy comb. form. Compare Middle French, French acatalepsie (1555).

Chiefly Philosophy.

Unknowability, incomprehensibility, originally as a characteristic of all things, according to the ancient Sceptics. Hence also: scepticism, profession of ignorance.

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1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 37 Those very Schooles of Philosophers, who downe-right maintained Acatalepsie or Incomprehensibility.

1677 Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 791 The Academicks, who professing an Acatalepsy, affirmed this one thing only to be certain, Nihil certi sciri posse.

1768 tr. C. Rollin Hist. Arts & Sci. Antients (ed. 2) III. ii. iii. 376 A worthy member of the Eleatic sect, whose favourite maxim was the Acatalepsy, or the absolute incomprehensibility of all things.

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 49/2 The distinguishing tenet of the Pyrrhonists was their asserting an absolute acatalepsy in regard to every thing.

1827 J. W. Loudon Mummy! I. ii. 40 There is something very astonishing..in the effervescence of the animal spirits during youth. I labour under a complete acatalepsy upon the subject.

1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 169 Arcesilaus could from Plato's works deduce his own theory of the incomprehensibility of all things: the acatalepsy.

1883 Fortn. Rev. Nov. 725 If the poet's message be a sort of poetical ‘acatalepsy’, the world has every right to pass poets by on the other side.

1905 Overland Monthly Feb. 109/1 His character, so far as it can be tagged and pigeonholed, comes easily under the philosophical doctrine of acatalepsy.

1944 M. H. Fisch & T. G. Bergin tr. G. Vico Autobiogr. a. 132 Medicine..had declined into scepticism, and doctors had begun to take their stand on acatalepsy or the impossibility of comprehending the truth about the nature of diseases.

2009 R. E. Sullivan Macaulay i. 44 His granduncle only knew that ‘we shouldn't assert or affirm anything, or approve it with assent: we should always curb our rashness and restrain ourselves from any slip’. Hence Macaulay prudently adopted classical ‘acatalepsy’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	acatalepsy
释义	acatalepsyn. Brit. /əˈkatəlɛpsi/, /(ˌ)eɪˈkatəlɛpsi/, U.S. /eɪˈkædlˌɛpsi/ Forms: 1600s acatalepsie, 1600s– acatalepsy. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin acatalepsia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin acatalepsia (1620 in a British source) < Hellenistic Greek ἀκαταληψία impossibility of direct apprehension < ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος that cannot be reached or touched, in Hellenistic Greek also incomprehensible, not comprehending ( < ἀ- a- prefix⁶ + καταληπτός : see cataleptic adj. and n.) + -ία -y suffix³; compare -lepsy comb. form. Compare Middle French, French acatalepsie (1555). Chiefly Philosophy. Unknowability, incomprehensibility, originally as a characteristic of all things, according to the ancient Sceptics. Hence also: scepticism, profession of ignorance. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Greek scepticism > elements of acatalepsy1640 trope1841 epoché1923 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning Pref. 37 Those very Schooles of Philosophers, who downe-right maintained Acatalepsie or Incomprehensibility. 1677 Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 791 The Academicks, who professing an Acatalepsy, affirmed this one thing only to be certain, Nihil certi sciri posse. 1768 tr. C. Rollin Hist. Arts & Sci. Antients (ed. 2) III. ii. iii. 376 A worthy member of the Eleatic sect, whose favourite maxim was the Acatalepsy, or the absolute incomprehensibility of all things. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 49/2 The distinguishing tenet of the Pyrrhonists was their asserting an absolute acatalepsy in regard to every thing. 1827 J. W. Loudon Mummy! I. ii. 40 There is something very astonishing..in the effervescence of the animal spirits during youth. I labour under a complete acatalepsy upon the subject. 1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 169 Arcesilaus could from Plato's works deduce his own theory of the incomprehensibility of all things: the acatalepsy. 1883 Fortn. Rev. Nov. 725 If the poet's message be a sort of poetical ‘acatalepsy’, the world has every right to pass poets by on the other side. 1905 Overland Monthly Feb. 109/1 His character, so far as it can be tagged and pigeonholed, comes easily under the philosophical doctrine of acatalepsy. 1944 M. H. Fisch & T. G. Bergin tr. G. Vico Autobiogr. a. 132 Medicine..had declined into scepticism, and doctors had begun to take their stand on acatalepsy or the impossibility of comprehending the truth about the nature of diseases. 2009 R. E. Sullivan Macaulay i. 44 His granduncle only knew that ‘we shouldn't assert or affirm anything, or approve it with assent: we should always curb our rashness and restrain ourselves from any slip’. Hence Macaulay prudently adopted classical ‘acatalepsy’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1640
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