teleiotic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Byzantine Ancient Greek τελειωτικός (teleiōtikós, “perfective, effective”), from Koine Greek τελειωτής (teleiōtḗs, “accomplisher, finisher”), from Ancient Greek τελειοῦν (teleioûn, “to perfect, to complete”).
Adjective[edit]
teleiotic (comparative more teleiotic, superlative most teleiotic)
- (rare) Complete, perfect. [from 18th c.]
- 1702, Henry Dodwell, Concerning Marriages in Different Communions:
- It seems therefore to imply, that the Mysteries of the Law were of the lower sort, Cathartic only, not Teleiotic.
- 1860, Thomas Laycock, Mind and brain; or, The Correlations of consciousness and organisation, volume 2, page 183:
- […] 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 […]
- 1863, “The Genesis of Mind”, in The Journal of Mental Science[1], volume 8, page 74:
- 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.
- 2014, Danielle A. Layne, The Neoplatonic Socrates[2], page 103:
- The Neoplatonic exegesis of the two “complete” (teleiotic) dialogues that follow the basic cycle of ten—Timaeus and Parmenides—begins to answer this question.