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‖ ˈschesis Obs.
[mod.L., a. Gr. σχέσις relation, state, condition (in medical writers = sense 2 below), root σχ-:—pre-Hellenic *zgh-, weak grade of *segh-, whence Gr. ἔχειν to have, hold, etc.: see scheme v.]
1. The manner in which a thing is related to something else; relation.
1678Cudworth Intell, Syst. i. v. 723 The Idea of God or an absolutely Perfect Being including in it..a necessary schesis or relation to existence, it follows..that He doth exist. 1678Norris Miscell. (1699) 160 If that mind which has existing in itself 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.
2. Phys. A temporary habit or state of the body.
Cf. schetic a.; the explanation in quot. 1706 is erroneous.
1684tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict., Schesis is the Disposition of the Body. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Schesis, the Habit or Constitution of the body; accordingly as it is fleshy or lean, hard or soft, thick or slender. |
