schesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχέσις (skhésis, “state, condition, attitude”), from ἔχω (ékhō). See scheme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskiːsɪs/
• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

Noun

schesis (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
   • 1687, John Norris, Miscellanies:

     For if that Mind which has Existing in it self from all Eternity, all the Simple Essences of Things , and conſequently , all their poſſible Scheſes or Habitudes, should ever change, there would arise a new Schesis in this Mind that was not before

   • 1894, Steele MacKaye ·, Father Ambrose, the Revelations of May 3d '68, page 148:

     Each of you have been inducted into that subtle Psycho-cosmic schesis which we term, En; a state of profound zootic subjection, which renders somatic organisms susceptible to the potent empire of what is called, in the terrestro-astral plane, substantial imitation;

   • 1982, Laurence Senelick, Gordon Craig's Moscow Hamlet: A Reconstruction, page 29:

     The task of the artist was to remake the theatre into a combination of the ancient Greek orchestra and gnostic rites that would reintegrate the alienated audience into the ecstatic schesis.

Related terms

• schesis onomaton

Anagrams

• Scheiss, schises