单词 | participable |
释义 | participableadj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [adjective] > participating > liable or entitled to participate participablec1475 c1475 Mankind (1969) 16 I beseche yow yowr conycyons to rectyfye Ande..to haue a remocyon To þis blyssyde prynce..Þat ȝe may be partycypable of hys retribucyon. 2. Able to be shared or participated in. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > dividing and sharing > divided and shared > able to be participable1610 shareable1674 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. vi. 11 Communicate Matter is that which is participable to the Plot together with other Places. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 50 A mutuall propertie or duety participable to the Conterminants, as bancking, balking, dyking [etc.]. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 352 By the mind of God Exhibitive, is meant the essence of God, as thus or thus imitable, or participable by any Creature. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 246 According as the essence of God is..in this or that degree participable by things without. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 296 An union with that which is participable. 1933 E. R. Dodds tr. Proclus Elem. Theol. Comm. 262 The henads are ‘participable’ in accordance with the general law enunciated. 1987 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 48 225 He attempts to evade the problem of how creatures could be at different distances from an infinite being by maintaining that when God is taken as imitable or participable by creatures he is not taken as infinite. 2000 W. M. Thompson in W. M. Thompson & D. L. Morse Voegelin's Israel & Revelation 241 Voegelin thinks of the Father as symbolizing transcendence; the Son, the transcendent as personal Logos, the Spirit, the transcendent as personally participable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1475 |
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