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Ramist, n. (and a.)|ˈreɪmɪst|
[f. the name of Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée, 1515–1572) + -ist.]
A. n. A follower of Ramus, as the author of a system of logic opposed in various respects to the Aristotelian.
1605Camden Mem. (1636) 112 To reduce surnames to a methode is matter for a Ramist. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. iii. (1852) 539 He was an acute Ramist, but yet he professed himself a lover of a Trichotomy. 1837K. H. Digby Mores Catholici viii. vi. 194 Petrus Ramus, to whom adhered Francis Fabricius, the poet Milton, and others, who obtained the title of Ramists, applied himself [etc.]. 1876Bourne Locke I. i. 45 At Oxford, in Locke's day, the Ramists and anti-Ramists fought out their interminable battle. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 2 July 812/4 The same idea had already been popularized on the Continent long before Bacon wrote. As McRae has pointed out, for example, the Ramists had already stressed that knowledge ought to be ‘for use’.
B. attrib. or as adj. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, Ramists or Ramism.
1852H. L. Mansel Artis Logicæ Rudimenta (ed. 2) p. xl, The mixed school represented by Keckermann, Aristotelian in matter, Ramist in method. 1863W. C. Dowding Life Calixtus vi. 40 It is the Ramist party that the allusion points to. 1882R. Adamson in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 803 Bacon with well-grounded objection to much of the Ramist method, expounds the system of logic with unmistakable reference to the Ramist principles. 1955D. Davie Brides of Reason 38 But Wesley's sermons could be methodized According to a Ramist paradigm.
Hence Raˈmistic a., pertaining to Ramus or his system; also † Raˈmistical a. † ˈRamistry, Ramism.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. vi. §4 margin, Ramystry. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 261 Even Hooker himselfe (though otherwise no friend to Ramystry) acknowledgeth that it is of marveilous quicke dispatch. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxi. 277 Whose day after a ramisticall dichotomy being divided into forenoone and afternoone. 1962Listener 5 July 19/1 Behind Bacon stands not only the Ramistic Cambridge of his youth, but also the body of London craftsmen and scientists. 1965K. Charlton Educ. in Renaissance Eng. v. 153 Ramistic texts..poured from the presses. |