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humaˈnistical, a. [f. as prec. + -al1.] = humanistic 1; pertaining to classical studies.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 70 His [Sir Thomas More's] Humanistical Pamphlets. Ibid. II. To Rdr. 49 Their [Jesuits'] boasting Monopoly and bragging Tyrrany over Humanistical Schools. Ibid. III. Crit. Hist. 107 Master of Rhetorick and Poetry in the famous Trivial School of Humanistical Studies at Jena. Hence humaˈnistically adv., in relation to humanism or classical studies; from the point of view of the humanist; also in relation to humanism 5.
1886A. Seth in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 423/2 The teaching of the school of Chartres, humanistically nourished on the study of the ancients. 1890Athenæum 26 July 117/3 This may be humanistically true. 1904W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) xxxii. 451 ‘Radium’, for example; humanistically, both the that and the what of it are creations of yesterday. But we believe that ultra-humanistically they existed ages before their gifted discoverers were born. In what shape? There's the rub! for we have no non-humanistic categories to think in. 1909― Meaning of Truth iii. 79 The reader would conceive the knowing humanistically. 1944Scrutiny XII. iii. 210 The brilliant vitality of the keyboard writing..itself tends to render this passion more directly and humanistically dramatic than the more religious (if no less intense) keyboard style of Gibbons. |