pleroma

Definitions

1. A plant of the genus Pleroma.
   countable, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of pleroma (“the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”).
   alt-of, historical
3. Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.
   historical
4. Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”).
   archaic, countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
5. A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“In his [Jakob Eriksson's] investigations of the meristem (the tissue from which the permanent tissues are formed) by dicotyledonous roots he found four types of growth, […] In the second type⟳ only two separate⟳ meristem tissues are present⟳ in the tips of the roots; a pleroma and a common tissue, from which the primary bark and epidermis and root-cap proceed.”

“[I]n the pleroma of the primary meristem of roots there is not only cambium (persistent parenchyma) and procambium (forerunner of fibres and vessels), but pericambium—i.e., a special outer layer of the plerome that remains for a long time as meristem.”

“In the pleroma of hyacinth and pea roots, t#95;#123;min#125; increases along the meristem, especially in its basal part[…].”

“And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed when People are to be gulled with noiſy Nothings? i.e. with empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.”

“There is a way to comprehend the gnostic's giant onion of a world, the concentric circles, with the Pleroma beckoning there, the white heart of light⟳, the source of that primal vision which for a second or two can recapture paradise.”

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