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philosoph, -ophe Obs. or only as Fr.|ˈfɪləʊsɒf, -ˈzɒf|
Forms: 1 philosoph; 4 filosofe, -zofe, -sophe; 8–9 philosoph(e.
[In OE. ad. L. philosoph-us, a. Gr. ϕιλόσοϕ-ος lover of wisdom, philosopher, f. ϕίλος loving + σοϕός wise, a sage; in ME. a. OF. filosofe, philosophe ad. L.]
= philosopher 1; now often = philosophist 2. Also attrib. or as adj. and transf.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iii. vii. §2 Þæm stro[n]gan cyninge & þæm ᵹelæredestan philosophe. 1340Ayenb. 77 Alle the wyse clerkes, and þe greate filosofes. Ibid. 126 Filozofes. Ibid. 164. 1721 Ramsay Content 404 Two Busbian philosophs put in their claims. [1774H. Walpole Let. 28 Sept. (1904) IX. 59 Madame du Deffand hates les philosophes.] 1779― Let. 7 July (1904) X. 441 The philosophes, except Buffon, are solemn, arrogant, dictatorial coxcombs. 1827Praed Poems (1865) II. 214, I danced with a female philosophe, Who was not quite a bore. 1830J. P. Cobbett Jrnl. Tour in Italy 286 Guard us ye powers..against all that calls itself ‘liberal’ or ‘philosophe’! 1840J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Mar. 270 Those writers were as much cried down among the philosophes themselves. 1868W. Whitman Poems 87 See..superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, dressed in working dresses. 1932Scrutiny I. 122 Two things appeared to Bentham's philosophe mind to be necessary. 1961Times 25 Mar. 3/7 He [sc. Raymond Williams] is not a politician so much as a prophet really, a sort of English philosophe. 1969Listener 9 Jan. 37/2 All the philosophes, all the Encyclopedists, shared the Baconian belief that science could save mankind. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Oct. 8/3 Despite his genuine and profound erudition, Gibbon was a philosophe far more than a philosopher, though he hankered after being a philosopher of history.
Hence philoˈsophedom, the domain or realm of philosophs.
1833Carlyle Misc., Diderot (1857) III. 216 They entertain their special ambassador in Philosophedom, their lion's⁓provider to furnish spiritual Philosophe-provender. |