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apocalyptic(dictionary)

apocalyptic (iou)



apocalyptic noun & adjective. E17.
[French apocalyptique adjective from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein: see APOCALYPSE, -IC.]
A. noun.
1. The writer of the Apocalypse, St John the Divine; the author or revealer of any comparable vision of the future. E17.
Paul Johnson All societies contain not only creators and builders but apocalyptics.
2. Apocalyptic teaching, philosophy, or literature. L19.
R. H. Charles Prophecy and Apocalyptic..both claim to be a communication through the Divine Spirit of the character and will and purposes of God. Scrutiny A periodical which has previously discussed the problems of the relation between culture and the coming social-economic revolution mainly in terms of the crudest Marxian apocalyptic.
B. adjective.
1. Of, pertaining to, or concerned with the Revelation of St John. M17.
D. Masson Meade was at the head of the Apocalyptic commentators.
2. Of a person: concerned with or given to (similar) visions of the future. M17.
R. South That some apocalyptick ignoramus..must..pick it out of some abused, martyred prophecy of Ezechiel. Time As for where the current turmoil is leading Portugal, Lagoa is increasingly apocalyptic.
3. Resembling the Apocalypse; revelatory, prophetic. L17.
A. C. Swinburne The recognition of the apocalyptic fact that a workman can only be known by his work.
apocalyptical adjective M17.
apocalyptically adverb after the manner or by means of revelation or of the Apocalypse M18.
apocalypticism ,
apocalyptism nouns belief in an imminent apocalypse L19.