pneuma

When we apply ourselves to seeking something with memory, this pineal gland is opened to provide access to the animate spirit psychical pneuma from the anterior to the posterior ventricle.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

For only when the psychical pneuma is serene, lucid, and clear does it cross over to the posterior ventricle (Publicius, Art of Memory, 28).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Further, as Barfield rightly noted, the literal/figurative distinction is actually a breaking apart of what at least sometimes is an earlier holophrastic meaning -- that is, we have no reason to think that people took pneuma (=wind) as the anchor meaning and then extended the use to pneuma (=spirit); rather, they just used the word pneuma in both ways without bothering about literal and figurative senses.

On Some Misconceptions About Figurative Language 2005

Further, as Barfield rightly noted, the literal/figurative distinction is actually a breaking apart of what at least sometimes is an earlier holophrastic meaning -- that is, we have no reason to think that people took pneuma (=wind) as the anchor meaning and then extended the use to pneuma (=spirit); rather, they just used the word pneuma in both ways without bothering about literal and figurative senses.

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

And because, as we observed before, the word pneuma is variously used, Didymus, de Spiritu Sancto, lib. iii., supposeth that the prefixing of the article to doth distinguish the signification, and confine it to the Holy Ghost in the New Testament.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Because the word pneuma, without as well as with the article so generally refers to the Spirit in the New Testament.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

The cosmos is pervaded by a continuous invisible substance which they called pneuma (Greek:

Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

59 If the psychical pneuma is too cold, Publicius adds, it cannot cross over to the posterior ventricle, thus rendering the memory "dull and languid."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Mk. 7: 25 hes eiche to thugatrion autes pneuma akatharton.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

The Greek πνευμα ακαθαρτης or pneuma akathartis means literally "unclean spirit."

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010