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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle place; mean.
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The Papacy elevated the Church to the virtual exclusion or suppression of the Scriptures: the modern Church of England, since Chillingworth, has so raised up the Scriptures as to annul the Church; both alike have quenched the Holy Spirit, as the 'mesothesis' of the two, and substituted an alien compound for the genuine Preacher, who should be the 'synthesis' of the Scriptures and the Church, and the sensible voice of the Holy Spirit.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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A whimsical instance of the disposition in the mind for every pair of opposites to find an intermediate, -- a 'mesothesis' for every 'thesis' and 'antithesis'.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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The consequence has been, as might have been predicted, the extinction of the Spirit (the indifference or 'mesothesis') in both considered as bodies: for I doubt not that numerous individuals in both Churches live in communion with the Spirit.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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All things in which the temporal is concerned may be reduced to a pentad, namely, prothesis, thesis, antithesis, mesothesis and synthesis.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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But to borrow a term from astronomy, it is a librating mesothesis: for it may verge more to likeness as in painting, or more to difference, as in sculpture.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Imitation is the mesothesis of likeness and difference.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The Trinity is the idea: the Incarnation, which implies the Fall, is the fact: the Redemption is the mesothesis of the two -- that is -- the religion.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Heat is the mesothesis or indifference of light and matter.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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n., Something interposed, serving to connect or reconcile antithetical agencies or principles (fr. Greek for 'middle' and 'setting, placing;' see thesis).
September 3, 2008