Porphyrianadj.¹n.

Brit.

/pɔːˈfɪrɪən/, U.S.

/pɔrˈfɪriən/

Forms: 1500s Porphirian, 1500s Porphiriane (Scottish), 1600s– Porphyrian.

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

Etymology: < post-classical Latin Porphyrianus (4th cent.; compare Byzantine Greek Πορϕυριανός ) < Porphyrius , the name of Porphyry , Neo-Platonic philosopher and opponent of Christianity ( a.d. 233–306; Hellenistic Greek Πορϕύριος < πορϕύρα purple (see purpure n.) + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives: see note below) + classical Latin -ānus -an suffix. With use as noun compare French Porphyrien (1688 in the passage translated in quot. 1701 at sense B.) and earlier Porphyrianist n.Πορϕύριος , a Tyrian, was so called in Greek on account of the colour purple's association with royalty: his original name, Malchus , of Semitic origin, having the sense ‘king’ (compare malchus n.).

A. adj.¹

Of or relating to Porphyry or to his doctrines.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Neoplatonism > of or relating to Porphyry

Porphyrian1568

1568 Bible (Bishops') Pref. *ii These bookes..coulde neuer be put out of the way..[by] the hatred either of any Porphirian philosopher or Rhetoritian.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 66 Prosecute with all your authority, these Porphirian deriders.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) vii. iii. 379 Appollinare of Laodienss, scharp persewar of ye Porphiriane heresie [L. porphiriana labes].

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 589 Even according to the Porphyrian Theology it self..the Three Hypostases in the Platonick Trinity, are ὁμοούσιοι, Co-Essential.

a1743 A. M. Ramsay Philos. Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. (1749) II. i. 57 Proclus, another Platonic disciple of the Porphyrian and Plotinian school.

1880 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 102 He also attempts to identify other notes in the Homeric Scholia as Porphyrian.

1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 92 The Porphyrian list of predicables substitutes Species for Definition.

1945 Jrnl. Philos. 42 609 The rigid use of a combination of Aristotelian logic and the Porphyrian approach to classification..was sufficient to give a base for a deductive science.

1995 Classical Q. New Ser. 45 215 Smith..has thus made good a promise made twenty years ago to fill this glaring gap in Porphyrian scholarship.

B. n.

A disciple or follower of Porphyry.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Neoplatonism > adherent of Porphyry

Porphyrianist1678

Porphyrian1701

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 125 In another Letter..he [sc. Constantine] enjoins the Name of Porphyrus to be given to Arius, and his Followers to be called Porphyrians [Fr. Porphyriens].

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 262 His person and disciples were branded by law with the odious name of Porphyrians.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 640 [Diodorus] combated Platonists and Porphyrians, Manichaeans and Apollinarists.

1995 M. B. Simmons Arnobius of Sicca x. 302 Both Christians and Porphyrians tried to make a credibility gap between the leader of the movements attacked and his disciples.

Compounds

Porphyrian scale n. = Porphyrian tree n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. > of genera of man

Porphyrian tree1656

Porphyrian scale1687

1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 322 This excellent communicativeness of the Divine nature is typically represented and mysteriously exemplify'd by the Porphyrian Scale of Being.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. ii. iv. 286 Every step it takes in the region of particulars, whether downwards in the Porphyrian scale, or sideways all round in the field of circumstances, affords an additional security.

1987 H. M. Hoenigswald & L. F. Weiner Biol. Metaphor & Cladistic Classif. i. 6 Schleicher's trees differed from the traditional tree of Porphyry or Porphyrian scale, which was a purely logical method of exhibiting the series of subaltern genera to which a concept may be assigned.

Porphyrian tree n. [originally described in Porphyry's Isagoge in Aristotelis Categorias (though without explicitly using the metaphor of a tree), and subsequently used in medieval textbooks; compare post-classical Latin arbor Porphyriana (1409 or earlier; a1277 as arbor Porphyrii)] a classification of species, branches of knowledge, etc., by means of successive dichotomy producing paired subcategories, often represented as a branching diagram likened to a tree.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. > of genera of man

Porphyrian tree1656

Porphyrian scale1687

1656 A. Cowley Misc. 26 in Poems That right Porphyrian Tree which did true Logick shew, Each Leaf did learned Notions give, And th' Apples were Demonstrative.

1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 59 You err, if you think this is he, Tho' seated on the top of the Porphyrian Tree.

1891 F. C. Montague Introd. in J. Bentham Fragment on Govt. 20 All knowledge was for him [sc. Jeremy Bentham] an endless reproduction of the Porphyrian tree.

1999 W. Hüllen Eng. Dict. 285 He [sc. Wilkins] does see his ‘Tables’ in the tradition of ancient logic and ontology as it had come down to him through the centuries from the Porphyrian tree to Ramistic schemata of knowledge.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† porphyrianadj.²

Forms: 1600s porphirian, 1600s–1800s porphyrian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin porphyrium , -an suffix.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin porphyrium porphyry n. + -an suffix.

Obsolete.

Of, relating to, or consisting of porphyry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] > ancient porphyry

porphyritic?a1475

porphyrate1612

porphyrian1638

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [adjective] > porphyry

porphyritic?a1475

porphyrate1612

porphyrian1638

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 62 Foure hundred porphirian pillars.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. ii. ii.124 Many lovely Pillars of Porphyrian Marble [Fr. colonnes de porphyre].

?1735 H. Boerhaave Elem. Chem. I. ii. 33 Brown, black, porphyrian, red, and green Marble.

1891 New Eng. Mag. May 355/2 The surface, smooth and hard as plate glass, shows a grain of almost porphyrian fineness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	porphyrian
释义	Porphyrianadj.¹n. Brit. /pɔːˈfɪrɪən/, U.S. /pɔrˈfɪriən/ Forms: 1500s Porphirian, 1500s Porphiriane (Scottish), 1600s– Porphyrian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Porphyrianus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Porphyrianus (4th cent.; compare Byzantine Greek Πορϕυριανός ) < Porphyrius , the name of Porphyry , Neo-Platonic philosopher and opponent of Christianity ( a.d. 233–306; Hellenistic Greek Πορϕύριος < πορϕύρα purple (see purpure n.) + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives: see note below) + classical Latin -ānus -an suffix. With use as noun compare French Porphyrien (1688 in the passage translated in quot. 1701 at sense B.) and earlier Porphyrianist n.Πορϕύριος , a Tyrian, was so called in Greek on account of the colour purple's association with royalty: his original name, Malchus , of Semitic origin, having the sense ‘king’ (compare malchus n.). A. adj.¹ Of or relating to Porphyry or to his doctrines. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Neoplatonism > of or relating to Porphyry Porphyrian1568 1568 Bible (Bishops') Pref. ii These bookes..coulde neuer be put out of the way..[by] the hatred either of any Porphirian philosopher or Rhetoritian. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares* f. 66 Prosecute with all your authority, these Porphirian deriders. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) vii. iii. 379 Appollinare of Laodienss, scharp persewar of ye Porphiriane heresie [L. porphiriana labes]. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 589 Even according to the Porphyrian Theology it self..the Three Hypostases in the Platonick Trinity, are ὁμοούσιοι, Co-Essential. a1743 A. M. Ramsay Philos. Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. (1749) II. i. 57 Proclus, another Platonic disciple of the Porphyrian and Plotinian school. 1880 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 102 He also attempts to identify other notes in the Homeric Scholia as Porphyrian. 1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 92 The Porphyrian list of predicables substitutes Species for Definition. 1945 Jrnl. Philos. 42 609 The rigid use of a combination of Aristotelian logic and the Porphyrian approach to classification..was sufficient to give a base for a deductive science. 1995 Classical Q. New Ser. 45 215 Smith..has thus made good a promise made twenty years ago to fill this glaring gap in Porphyrian scholarship. B. n. A disciple or follower of Porphyry. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Neoplatonism > adherent of Porphyry Porphyrianist1678 Porphyrian1701 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 125 In another Letter..he [sc. Constantine] enjoins the Name of Porphyrus to be given to Arius, and his Followers to be called Porphyrians [Fr. Porphyriens]. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 262 His person and disciples were branded by law with the odious name of Porphyrians. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 640 [Diodorus] combated Platonists and Porphyrians, Manichaeans and Apollinarists. 1995 M. B. Simmons Arnobius of Sicca x. 302 Both Christians and Porphyrians tried to make a credibility gap between the leader of the movements attacked and his disciples. Compounds Porphyrian scale n. = Porphyrian tree n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. > of genera of man Porphyrian tree1656 Porphyrian scale1687 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 322 This excellent communicativeness of the Divine nature is typically represented and mysteriously exemplify'd by the Porphyrian Scale of Being. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. ii. iv. 286 Every step it takes in the region of particulars, whether downwards in the Porphyrian scale, or sideways all round in the field of circumstances, affords an additional security. 1987 H. M. Hoenigswald & L. F. Weiner Biol. Metaphor & Cladistic Classif. i. 6 Schleicher's trees differed from the traditional tree of Porphyry or Porphyrian scale, which was a purely logical method of exhibiting the series of subaltern genera to which a concept may be assigned. Porphyrian tree n. [originally described in Porphyry's Isagoge in Aristotelis Categorias (though without explicitly using the metaphor of a tree), and subsequently used in medieval textbooks; compare post-classical Latin arbor Porphyriana (1409 or earlier; a1277 as arbor Porphyrii)] a classification of species, branches of knowledge, etc., by means of successive dichotomy producing paired subcategories, often represented as a branching diagram likened to a tree. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. > of genera of man Porphyrian tree1656 Porphyrian scale1687 1656 A. Cowley Misc. 26 in Poems That right Porphyrian Tree which did true Logick shew, Each Leaf did learned Notions give, And th' Apples were Demonstrative. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 59 You err, if you think this is he, Tho' seated on the top of the Porphyrian Tree. 1891 F. C. Montague Introd. in J. Bentham Fragment on Govt. 20 All knowledge was for him [sc. Jeremy Bentham] an endless reproduction of the Porphyrian tree. 1999 W. Hüllen Eng. Dict. 285 He [sc. Wilkins] does see his ‘Tables’ in the tradition of ancient logic and ontology as it had come down to him through the centuries from the Porphyrian tree to Ramistic schemata of knowledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † porphyrianadj.² Forms: 1600s porphirian, 1600s–1800s porphyrian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin porphyrium , -an suffix. Etymology: < post-classical Latin porphyrium porphyry n. + -an suffix. Obsolete. Of, relating to, or consisting of porphyry. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] > ancient porphyry porphyritic?a1475 porphyrate1612 porphyrian1638 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [adjective] > porphyry porphyritic?a1475 porphyrate1612 porphyrian1638 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 62 Foure hundred porphirian pillars. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. ii. ii.124 Many lovely Pillars of Porphyrian Marble [Fr. colonnes de porphyre]. ?1735 H. Boerhaave Elem. Chem. I. ii. 33 Brown, black, porphyrian, red, and green Marble. 1891 New Eng. Mag. May 355/2 The surface, smooth and hard as plate glass, shows a grain of almost porphyrian fineness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.¹n.1568adj.²1638
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Compounds

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Porphyrianadj.¹n.

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