单词 | ultrafidian |
释义 | ultrafidianadj. Going beyond mere faith; blindly credulous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [adjective] lightc1475 light-eareda1530 credulous1567 over-credulous1579 credulent1584 well-believing1620 sequacious1653 implicit1694 ultrafidiana1849 lame1942 a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 96 The great moralist, who balanced an ultrafidian credulity in the supernatural with an extraordinary degree of scepticism in things natural and human. 1865 Reader 14 Jan. 43/2 It must be, however, a strangely incurious and ultrafidian mind that can consent to rest there..simply at another's bidding. Derivatives ultraˈfidianism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [noun] overtrowingc1425 overtrowtha1500 overtrowshipa1525 credulity1547 tickle credit1563 credulency1586 credulousness1598 overcredulityc1625 credulence1650 sequaciousness1653 ultrafidianism1825 nasoductilitya1834 camel-swallowing1858 acceptativeness1870 leadableness1885 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 201 Sir Thomas Brown..could answer all the objections of the Devil and Reason..‘with the odd resolution he had learnt of Tertullian: Certum est quia impossibile est.’.. Now this I call Ultra-fidianism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1825 |
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