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Pyrrhonic, n. and a.|pɪˈrɒnɪk|
Also 6 Pironik.
[f. Gr. Πύρρων (see prec.) + -ic.]
a. n. = Pyrrhonist.
b. adj. Of or pertaining to the sceptic philosopher Pyrrho, or to his doctrines (see next); purely sceptical.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 120 They followe the Pironiks, whose position and opinion it is, that there is not hel or misery but opinion. 1668M. Casaubon Treat. Spirits (1672) 155, I am no Sceptick or Pyrrhonick. 1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §7 After these arose the sect of Pyrrhonics. 1831I. Taylor Pref. Ess. to Edwards' Freed. Will 32 Such doctrines as the Pyrrhonic or the Stoic..have a claim to be listened to. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 13 Oct. 275/1 The inquiring, pyrrhonic spirit of the age is fatal to presumptions of this sort. |