areopagy
English
Etymology
After the Areopagus.
Noun
areopagy
- (obsolete) secret tribunal, conclave
- 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- And herein though Socrates only suffered, yet were Plato and Aristotle guilty of the same truth; who demonstratively understanding the simplicity of perfection, and indivisible condition of the first causator, it was not in the power of earth, or Areopagy of hell to work them from it.
- 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
- Conscience only, that can see without Light, sits in the Areopagy and dark tribunal of our Hearts, surveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities.
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