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aeon
aeon
,Æ′on
Noun.
1.
An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
The
eons
of geological time. Huxley.
2.
(Gnostic Philos.)
One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Among the higher
æons
are Mind, Reason, Power, Truth, and Life. Am. Cyc.
☞ Eons were considered to be emanations sent forth by God from the depths of His grand solitude to fulfill various functions in the material and spiritual universe.
Definition 2024
aeon
aeon
See also: æon
English
Noun
aeon (plural aeons)
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative spelling of eon
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas'):
- When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.
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- (Gnosticism, preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, eternity”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈae̯.oːn/
Noun
aeōn m (genitive aeōnis); second declension
- (Late Latin) age, eternity
- (Late Latin) the Gnostic Æons
References
- aeon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- AEON in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aeon”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- aeon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers