apocatastasis

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apocatastasis

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Learned borrowing from Latin apocatastasis, itself from Ancient Greek ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis, “restoration, reëstablishment”), from ἀποκαθίστημι (apokathístēmi, “to stand up again”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “back again”) + καθίστημι (kathístēmi, “to set, place, constitute, appoint”), from κατά- (katá-, “down, for”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to set, stand, establish”).

noun apocatastases · apokatastasis

countable, especially, rare, uncountable An apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople. The Egyptians were the first assertors of the soul's immortality, and of its transmigration, after the death and corruption of this body, into the bodies of other animals successively, viz. until it have run round through the whole circuit of terrestrial, marine, and volatile animals, after which, t
countable, rare, uncountable The doctrine that all souls will enter heaven or paradise, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople. No doctrine...contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis.
countable, rare, uncountable Return to an earlier condition. We read of Apocatastasis or urine...of tumours, and other diseases.
countable, rare, uncountable Return to the same apparent position, as after a revolution. The accurate apocatastasis (i.e. regression to the same sign) of the moon, and in a similar manner of the sun.

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noun the doctrine that an apocalypse will lead to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment

Português	apocatástase
Italiano	apocatastasi
Ελληνικά	αποκατάσταση apokatástasi
Русский	апоката́стасис apokatástasis
العربية	اِسْتِعَادَة كُلِّيَّة istiʕāda kulliyya

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@misc{apocatastasis_2026,
  title = {apocatastasis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/apocatastasis},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}