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Pyrrhonist|ˈpɪrənɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A follower or disciple of Pyrrho; a professor of Pyrrhonism; one who doubts everything; a sceptic.
1598Marston Sco. Villanie i. i. B viii, Fye Gallus, what, a skeptick Pyrrhomist? 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 49/2 The distinguishing tenet of the Pyrrhonists was their asserting an absolute acatalepsy in regard to every thing. 1893Liddon, etc. Life Pusey (1894) I. ii. 45 Now he..was too much of a Pyrrhonist to think that any opinions, even when entirely negative, were certainly true.
Hence Pyrrhoˈnistic a. rare, of the nature of a Pyrrhonist or of Pyrrhonism.
1886Swinburne Misc. 146 Disciples of a radically and essentially Pyrrhonistic system of theosophy. |