spiritus mundin.

Brit.

/ˌspɪrᵻtᵿs ˈmʊndi/, U.S.

/ˌspɪrᵻdəs ˈmʊndi/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin spīritus mundī.

Etymology: < classical Latin spīritus mundī < spīritus (see spirit n.) + mundī , genitive of mundus world (see mundane adj.). Compare world-spirit n. at world n. Compounds 8.

‘The spirit of the world’: a principle supposed by early philosophers to be underlying or shaping the world. Cf. anima mundi n. and world-spirit n. at world n. Compounds 8.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > world characterized by

worldhoodeOE

spiritus mundi1647

world-spirit1654

1647 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Clavis 19 in tr. XL. Questions conc. Soule The Spiritus Mundi, that is, the soule of the great world, opened it selfe in the fift Essence.., therein God created all Beasts, fishes, fowles, and wormes.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ i. 7 This Spiritus Mundi..in some places perspires more freely than in other.

1840 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 39 291 Why is not the whole mass of matter operated upon by this spiritus mundi?

1864 Home & Foreign Rev. Apr. 434 The spiritus mundi, which people sought for in the dew of the month of May.

1920 W. B. Yeats Second Coming in Dial Nov. 466 A vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight.

1997 J. M. Greer Circles of Power ii. 38 Traditional writings..often speak of the anima mundi, the soul of the world, and the spiritus mundi, the spirit or life-force of the world, as the inner aspects of the world we inhabit.

2013 D. Cressy Saltpeter i. 29 Ordnance officers pursued saltpeter as ‘the mother of gunpowder’, and philosophers sought in it the spiritus mundi.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spiritus mundi
释义	spiritus mundin. Brit. /ˌspɪrᵻtᵿs ˈmʊndi/, U.S. /ˌspɪrᵻdəs ˈmʊndi/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin spīritus mundī. Etymology: < classical Latin spīritus mundī < spīritus (see spirit n.) + mundī , genitive of mundus world (see mundane adj.). Compare world-spirit n. at world n. Compounds 8. ‘The spirit of the world’: a principle supposed by early philosophers to be underlying or shaping the world. Cf. anima mundi n. and world-spirit n. at world n. Compounds 8. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > world characterized by worldhoodeOE spiritus mundi1647 world-spirit1654 1647 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Clavis 19 in tr. XL. Questions conc. Soule The Spiritus Mundi, that is, the soule of the great world, opened it selfe in the fift Essence.., therein God created all Beasts, fishes, fowles, and wormes. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ i. 7 This Spiritus Mundi..in some places perspires more freely than in other. 1840 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 39 291 Why is not the whole mass of matter operated upon by this spiritus mundi? 1864 Home & Foreign Rev. Apr. 434 The spiritus mundi, which people sought for in the dew of the month of May. 1920 W. B. Yeats Second Coming in Dial Nov. 466 A vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight. 1997 J. M. Greer Circles of Power ii. 38 Traditional writings..often speak of the anima mundi, the soul of the world, and the spiritus mundi, the spirit or life-force of the world, as the inner aspects of the world we inhabit. 2013 D. Cressy Saltpeter i. 29 Ordnance officers pursued saltpeter as ‘the mother of gunpowder’, and philosophers sought in it the spiritus mundi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647
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