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Comtian, a. and n.|ˈkɒmtɪən, ˈkɔ̃tɪən|
Also Comtean.
[f. name of Auguste Comte (d. 1857), a French philosopher who founded the system known as positivism.]
A. adj. Of or originating with Comte.
B. n. A Comtist.
1855G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 279 No. 35 [of In Memoriam] is the answer to Comptian materialism..Had men been Comptians from the beginning there would have been no science. 1863Athenæum 16 July 85/1 Distinctions between the Comtean synthesis and the synthetic philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer. 1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 261 Details referring to the ritual of Comtian worship.
So ˈComtism, the philosophical system of Comte, positivism. ˈComtist, a follower or disciple of Comte, a positivist; also attrib. or as adj.
1872Spectator 7 Sept. 1142 From Locke has flowed the main stream of that philosophy..to which Comtism is only a tributary. 1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 262 Without being a professed Comtist. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iii. 65 The Comtist argument against Christianity is simply a tacit ignoring of probable evidence. |