all-becrushing
adjEtymology all- + be- + crushing, nonce coinage by S. T. Coleridge to render Mendelssohn's alleszermalmend, in reference to Kant.
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crushing all
- the striking but untranslatable epithet, which the celebrated Mendelssohn applied to the great founder of the Critical Philosophy "Der alleszermalmende Kant," that is, the all-becrushing, or rather the all-to-nothing-crushing Kant.1817, S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria:
- providing its author – unlike the Red Star – with equal space for an allbecrushing reply.1990, Andrei Navrozov, The Times, Saturday May 5, 1990: