单词 | precausation |
释义 | precausationn. rare. Prior causation; predetermination. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > premeditation aforethoughta1400 forethoughta1400 premeditation?a1475 designment1570 preconsideration1593 predeliberationa1631 fore-plot1641 premeditatedness1659 design1665 precausation1670 contrivance1695 preconfiguration1830 precontrivance1832 designfulness1867 1670 R. Baxter Life of Faith (new ed.) ii. ix. 163 By his sustentation, and universal precausation and concourse. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 482 The ideas of precausation and fatality, of certainty and necessity, are so strongly rivetted together in men's minds..,that it is not easy to keep them asunder. 1963 Instructor June 205/2 This view contradicts not only Sartre and Berdyaev on self-creation, but also the Calvinistic concept of absolute precausation of all realities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1670 |
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