Praxic Age

First Appearance and Context

The term appears in a historical note delivered during the liturgical explanation of the Hylaean Anathem at a math’s central service. In that account, the aut was said to have fallen into disuse during the Dispersal to the New Periklynes and the Praxic Age that followed, before being revived after the Terrible Events and the Reconstitution. It is also used in The Dictionary (4th ed., A.R. 3000) entry on Saunt Proc, which dates him to the “late Praxic Age” and situates his presumed liquidation during the Terrible Events. A headword for “Sline” similarly dates that slang to “late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution,” tracing it to “baseline,” described there as a Praxic commercial term.

Description and Role

The Praxic Age is presented as a distinct span within the timeline of the Mathic World. In the context provided so far, it marks a phase when the Hylaean Anathem was not practiced, standing chronologically after the Dispersal to the New Periklynes and before the later revival of the aut after upheavals culminating in a Reconstitution.

Narrative descriptions of extramuros sites associate mid‑Praxic features with widespread industry: cheap steel construction, rail‑borne heat engines, oversized traveling cranes, and cast‑iron machine foundations. Later in the period, standardized steel shipping boxes are said to have been used to enclose goods on ships and trains, with such containers still seen repurposed in old compounds.

Relationships and Functions

• Temporal relations (as presented so far): follows the Dispersal to the New Periklynes; precedes the revival period following the Terrible Events and the Reconstitution. The Dictionary’s characterization of Proc as “late Praxic Age” places the label close to the period ending in the Terrible Events.
• Linguistic note: The Dictionary uses period labels such as “Praxic” and “late Praxic Age” when dating language stages and senses (e.g., Praxic Orth, late Praxic Orth), and in glosses such as the Sline entry’s “late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution.” See also Orth.
• Post‑Praxic reforms (as summarized by avout explanations): after the end of the Praxic Age, the concents’ coupling of processors to other tools (for making new‑matter or manipulating sequences) provoked reforms following the First and Second Sacks. Convoxes from that time restricted such praxes but grandfathered a few (e.g., photomnemonic tablets and certain new‑matter uses); within Great Clock concents, the Ita operate tolerated syntactic‑device subsystems under strict segregation.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Cultural tag: beyond chronology, the label functions in the Saeculum as a period flavor used in media and for institutional backdrops in teaching examples.
• Industrial texture: descriptions of mid‑Praxic infrastructure emphasize railways, cranes, and heavy castings; later‑Praxic containerization is called out explicitly in one account.

Current Status/Location

A historical designation referenced in teaching, liturgy, and reference works; no active institutions or practices have been attributed to it beyond the above context so far.