单词 | tableity |
释义 | † tableityn. Philosophy. Obsolete. The essential nature of a table; = tableness n.With reference to Plato's conversation with Diogenes the Cynic as recorded in Diogenes Laertius's Lives of Philosophers (see quot. 1656). Cf. cuppeity n. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes 123v Hauyng in his mouth..the said forges vocables of the Idees, as for exaumple, tableitees, for the facion of table. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes 124v Witte and reason..with whiche are perceiued..the tableitees and the cuppytees. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vii. 22 Plato answered, it is true indeed, you have eyes by which the table and cup are seen; but not an Intellect, by which tableity and cuppeity are seen. 1755 G. Colman & B. Thornton Connoisseur I. No. 27. 158 This is the case with those profound writers who have treated concerning the essence of matter, who talk very gravely of cuppeity, tableity, tallow-chandleity, and twenty other things with as much sound and as little signification. 1769 in E. Law Def. Locke's Opin. Personal Identity App. 41 Personality therefore may be ranked among the old scholastick terms of corporeity, egoity, tableity, &c. 1885 O. W. Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson xvi. 391 The following anecdote, which may be found under the title ‘Diogenes’, in the work of his namesake, Diogenes Laertius. I translate from the Latin version. ‘Plato was talking about ideas, and spoke of mensality and cyathity (tableity, and gobletity).’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1542 |
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