psychogonicadj.

Brit.

/ˌsʌɪkəˈɡɒnɪk/, U.S.

/ˌsaɪkəˈɡɑnɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: psychogony n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < psychogony n. + -ic suffix, originally after Byzantine Greek ψυχογονικός.

Chiefly Philosophy.

Of or relating to psychogony. psychogonic cube n. the number 216 ( = 6 × 6 × 6), a number held to be significant in Pythagorean thought as expressing the length in years of the supposed interval between successive reincarnations of a soul (see also quot. 1945).

ΚΠ

1820 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Comm. Plato II. v. 382 We should again inquire, in what divine, dæmoniacal, and partial souls, differ from the mundane soul, according to the psychogonic diagram [Gk. κατὰ τὸ ψυχογονικὸν διάγραμμα].

1885 Mind 10 635 The imagined ‘psychogonic’ order from outward to inward, from ‘legal’ to ‘moral’, being simply impossible.

1945 F. M. Cornford in tr. Plato Republic iv. xxix. 269 This was called the ‘psychogonic cube’, as expressing the number of days in the gestation period of the seven-months' child.

1962 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 25 224 Marino wrote his Epitalami in 648 lines: a total particularly appropriate for an epithalamion, since six is a marriage number and 216 the psychogonic cube.

1996 F. Ellis in P. I. Barta et al. Russ. Lit. & Classics 137 The Pythagorean devotion to the psychogonic cube with its recurring 6 finds an echo in the One State's Plaza of the Cube.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	psychogonic
释义	psychogonicadj. Brit. /ˌsʌɪkəˈɡɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkəˈɡɑnɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: psychogony n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < psychogony n. + -ic suffix, originally after Byzantine Greek ψυχογονικός. Chiefly Philosophy. Of or relating to psychogony. psychogonic cube n. the number 216 ( = 6 × 6 × 6), a number held to be significant in Pythagorean thought as expressing the length in years of the supposed interval between successive reincarnations of a soul (see also quot. 1945). ΚΠ 1820 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Comm. Plato II. v. 382 We should again inquire, in what divine, dæmoniacal, and partial souls, differ from the mundane soul, according to the psychogonic diagram [Gk. κατὰ τὸ ψυχογονικὸν διάγραμμα]. 1885 Mind 10 635 The imagined ‘psychogonic’ order from outward to inward, from ‘legal’ to ‘moral’, being simply impossible. 1945 F. M. Cornford in tr. Plato Republic iv. xxix. 269 This was called the ‘psychogonic cube’, as expressing the number of days in the gestation period of the seven-months' child. 1962 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 25 224 Marino wrote his Epitalami in 648 lines: a total particularly appropriate for an epithalamion, since six is a marriage number and 216 the psychogonic cube. 1996 F. Ellis in P. I. Barta et al. Russ. Lit. & Classics 137 The Pythagorean devotion to the psychogonic cube with its recurring 6 finds an echo in the One State's Plaza of the Cube. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1820
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