teleiotic

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adjective

Complete, perfect.

OriginAncient Greek τελειωτικός ← Koine Greek τελειωτής →
First used 18th c.Scrabble 11
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Meanings

adjectiveteleiotic (comparative more teleiotic, superlative most teleiotic)

comparative more teleiotic · superlative most teleiotic

  1. rareComplete, perfect.First known use 18th c.

    It seems therefore to imply, that the Mysteries of the Law were of the lower sort, Cathartic only, not Teleiotic.

    1702, Henry Dodwell, Concerning Marriages in Different Communions
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    […] I shall apply the term teleiotic homology to the results of the method of examining into the structures of organisms which I now recommend, and which, fixing definitely upon a primary teleiotic idea or law of development, examines them not only per se, but as constructed according to that law, in relation to each other, as parts of a harmonious whole […]

    1860, Thomas Laycock, Mind and brain; or, The Correlations of consciousness and organisation, volume 2, page 183

    The foregoing considerations lead us to remark that it is a mistaken waste of power to attempt by education to assimilate any animal to man; for the true education of every animal is to realise the possibility of its particular type—fully to display the teleiotic idea which it embodies.

    1863, “The Genesis of Mind”, in The Journal of Mental Science, volume 8, page 74

    The Neoplatonic exegesis of the two “complete” (teleiotic) dialogues that follow the basic cycle of ten—Timaeus and Parmenides—begins to answer this question.

    2014, Danielle A. Layne, The Neoplatonic Socrates, page 103

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekτελειοῦν“to perfect, to complete”
  2. Koine Greekτελειωτής“accomplisher, finisher”
  3. Ancient Greekτελειωτικός“perfective, effective”
  4. Englishteleiotic

From Byzantine Ancient Greek τελειωτικός (teleiōtikós, “perfective, effective”), from Koine Greek τελειωτής (teleiōtḗs, “accomplisher, finisher”), from Ancient Greek τελειοῦν (teleioûn, “to perfect, to complete”).

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