Mithraizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

Mithraize (三人称単数 現在形 Mithraizes, 現在分詞 Mithraizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 Mithraized)

1. To convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.
   • 1922, The American Church Monthly - Volume 11, page 732:

     Renan said that “if Christianity had been arrested in its progress by any mortal defect, the world would have been Mithraized”.

   • 1988, Roger Beck, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, page 58:

     But of winged gods one thinks immediately of Eros, not of course the diminished erotic putto, but the great cosmological and generative figure of the Orphics, known also as Phanes or Protogonos, who appears Mithraized in the famous figure at Modena.

   • 2006, Michael Patella, Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark, page 15- 16:

     Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized."

   • 2015, Roger Beck, “Soteriology, the Mysteries, and the Ancient Novel: Iamblichus Babyloniaca as a Test-Case”, in La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'Impero Romano:

     but at the very least we can say that lamblichus drew on a topos that in his own day had become, as it were, Mithraized