请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 plerosis
释义

plerosisn.

Brit. /plᵻˈrəʊsɪs/, U.S. /pləˈroʊsəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek πλήρωσις.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πλήρωσις filling up, filling, becoming full, repletion < πληροῦν to fill (see pleroma n.) + -σις -sis suffix. In sense 2 after German Plerosis (1848 in the passage translated in quot. 1859 at sense 2). Compare earlier plerotic adj. Compare earlier use of the Greek word in an English context in medicine:1749 J. Barrow Dict. Medicum Universale Plerosis,..repletion.
1. Medicine. Plethora (of blood or blood vessels); (also) the restoration of body tissue. Cf. plerotic adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/9 6:43:18