psychopannychism
English
editEtymology
editFrom psycho- + Ancient Greek παννύχιος (pannúkhios, “all night long”) + -ism.
Noun
editpsychopannychism (uncountable)
- (theology) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “psychopannychism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)