单词 | plerosis |
释义 | plerosisn.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > excess of blood plethory?a1425 plenitude1533 plethora?1541 plethorinessc1700 plerosis1811 polyaemia1846 pantoplethora1857 polyhaemia1876 1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) at Plethora Plerosis, an excessive fulness of vessels, or a redundance of blood. 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 668/1 Plerosis, restoration of flesh after sickness. Plethora. 2. Originally Theology. The action or process of being made full or complete, fulfilment.In later use esp. in the context of categorizing rites and rituals, in opposition to kenosis ‘emptying’. ΚΠ 1859 A. Edersheim tr. J. H. Kurtz Hist. Old Covenant I. 188 The Maleach Jehovah is the future—Christ the present—God-man; the former is a prototype of the eternal plan of salvation, the latter its plerosis. 1874 J. W. Watson & M. J. Evans tr. H. Plitt in J. J. van Oosterzee Christian Dogmatics II. iv. 621 This Christocracy of the New Testament is the pneumatic plerosis of the limited and external Theocracy of the Old. 1909 P. T. Forsyth Person & Place of Jesus Christ xii. 323 (heading) The Plerosis Or The Self-Fulfilment Of Christ. 1950 T. H. Gaster Thespis ii. 6 Rites of Plerosis include mock-combats against the forces of drought or evil, mass-mating, the performance of rain charms, and the like, all designed to promote the reinvigoration of the community. 1977 French Rev. 50 672 An analogy may be drawn between the narrator's journey into the past and the ancient rites of plerosis and kenosis. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) iv. 113 Plerosis, the filling of time with new beginnings, is characterised by a time of superabundant power, of wild, fruitful excess. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811 |
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