mindmap root((PAN)) panacea A remedy for all ills or difficulties; cure-all.
🌱Educational reform is sometimes viewed as the panacea for all of society's problems. 🌳Panacea comes from a Greek word meaning "all-healing," and Panacea was the goddess of healing. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, alchemists who sought to concoct the "elixir of life" （which would give eternal life） and the "philosopher's stone" （which would turn ordinary metals into gold） also labored to find the panacea. But no such medicine was ever found, just as no solution to all of a society's difficulties has ever been found. Thus, panacea is almost always used to criticize the very idea of a total solution （"There's no panacea for the current problems plaguing Wall Street"）. pandemonium A wild uproar or commotion.
🌱Pandemonium erupted in the stadium as the ball shot past the goalie into the net. 🌳In John Milton's Paradise Lost, the fallen Satan has his heralds proclaim "A solemn Councel forthwith to be held / At Pandaemonium, the high Capital / Of Satan and his Peers." Milton got the name for his capital of hell, where Satan gathered together all his demons, by linking pan with the Latin word daemonium,"evil spirit." For later writers, pandemonium became a synonym for hell itself, since hell was then often seen as a place of constant noise and confusion, but also for any wicked and lawless place. Nowadays it's used to refer to the uproar itself rather than the place where it occurs. pantheism A system of belief that regards God as identical with the forces and laws of the universe.
🌱Most of her students seemed to accept a vague kind of pantheism, without any real belief that God had ever appeared in human form. 🌳Pantheistic ideas—and most importantly the belief that God is equal to the universe, its physical matter, and the forces that govern it—are found in the ancient books of Hinduism, in the works of many Greek philosophers, and in later works of philosophy and religion over the centuries. Much modern New Age spirituality is pantheistic. But most Christian thinkers reject pantheism because it makes God too impersonal, doesn't allow for any difference between the creation and the creator, and doesn't seem to allow for humans to make meaningful moral choices. panoply 1、 A magnificent or impressive array.
2、 A display of all appropriate accessory items.
🌱The full panoply of a royal coronation was a thrilling sight for the throngs of sidewalk onlookers and the millions of television viewers. 🌳The fully armed Greek soldier was an impressive sight, even if Greek armor never became as heavy as that of medieval knights on horseback （who couldn't possibly have marched in such outfits）. Panoplia was the Greek word for the full suit of armor, and the English panoply originally likewise referred to the full suit of armor worn by a soldier or knight. Today panoply may refer to full ceremonial dress or lavish ceremonial decoration of any kind. And it can also refer to striking spectacle of almost any kind: the breathtaking panoply of autumn foliage, or the stirring panoply of a military parade, for example.