different between ambit vs apanthropinisation

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from amb?re + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Amb?re is the present active infinitive of ambi? (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + e? (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?æmb?t/
• Hyphenation: am?bit

Noun

ambit (plural ambits)

1. (obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.

   Synonym: (of a house) curtilage

2. (archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
3. (archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit.
4. (by extension)
   1. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
   2. The area or sphere of control and influence of something.

Derived terms

• ambit claim

Related terms

• ambitus

Translations

References

Further reading

• ambit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BTAIM, imbat, timba

Latin

Verb

ambit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ambi?

Polish

Etymology

From Latin ambitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.b?it/

Noun

ambit m inan

1. (architecture) ambulatory

   Synonym: obej?cie

Declension

Further reading

• ambit in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ambit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• apanthropinization

Etymology

Coined by C. Grant B. Allen in 1880 in volume 5 of the quarterly-review journal Mind : Ap- (from Ancient Greek ??- (ap-, “off, away”)) + anthropin(ism) (“human-focused consideration”) + -isation, noun suffix denoting the action of the suffixed verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æpæn?????p?na??ze???n/

Noun

apanthropinisation (uncountable)

1. (rare) The broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity.
   • 1880, Oct.: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen [contrib.] and George Croom Robertson (editor) of the Mind Association, Mind, volume 5 (? 20), page 451 ^? (Williams and Norgate) · (also quoted, with scant little alteration, on page 292 of The Academy [? 18, 1880])

     In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and all its subsequent history must be that of an apanthropinisation (I apologise for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point which remains to the very last its natural centre.

   • 1881, Jan.: The Popular Science Monthly, volume 18 (1880–1881), page 344 ^? (D. Appleton); quoting verbatim, but not literatim, the text of the first occurrence in Mind [1880] hereinbefore (minor adjustments to Americanise the spelling have been made)

     In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and all its subsequent history must be that of an apanthropinization (I apologize for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point which remains to the very last its natural center.

   • 2005, Mar.: Anne-Julia Zwierlein (editor), Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, page 114 (Anthem Press; ?ISBN, 978?1843311607)

     From this early, ‘anthropinistic’ stage, at which all aesthetic feeling is ‘gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman’, human aesthetic feeling gradually evolves in a process of apanthropinization, ‘a gradual regression or concentric widening of aesthetic feeling around this fixed point’,⁵⁹ and advances to the appreciation of beauty in nature.⁶⁰

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