Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableGeneral state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
The task of the artist was to remake the theatre into a combination of the ancient Greek orchestra and gnostic rites that would reintegrate the alienated audience into the ecstatic schesis.
1982, Laurence Senelick, Gordon Craig's Moscow Hamlet: A Reconstruction, page 292 more examples
For if that Mind which has Existing in it self from all Eternity, all the Simple Essences of Things , and conſequently , all their poſſible Scheſes or Habitudes, should ever change, there would arise a new Schesis in this Mind that was not before
1687, John Norris, MiscellaniesEach of you have been inducted into that subtle Psycho-cosmic schesis which we term, En; a state of profound zootic subjection, which renders somatic organisms susceptible to the potent empire of what is called, in the terrestro-astral plane, substantial imitation;
1894, Steele MacKaye ·, Father Ambrose, the Revelations of May 3d '68, page 148
Origin
- Ancient Greekσχέσις“state, condition, attitude”
- Englishschesis
From Ancient Greek σχέσις (skhésis, “state, condition, attitude”), from ἔχω (ékhō). See scheme.
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