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1860 J. H. A. Bomberger et al. Herzog's Protestant Theol. & Eccles. Encycl. II. 732/1 Zuingle, humanistically and exegetically trained and well read in the Church fathers, was unwittingly led to the correct view, when he said [etc.].

1886 A. Seth in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 423/2 The teaching of the school of Chartres, humanistically nourished on the study of the ancients.

1943 ELH 10 102 In that tract humanistically trained Puritans found their sanction of the originally Stoic conception of Right Reason.

1993 Isis 84 378/1 In particular, he tries to explain why French scientists in the first half of the seventeenth century, all educated by humanistically trained professors who revered the writings of the ancients, were so receptive to novelty in the sciences.

1875 E. Faber Systemical Digest Doctr. of Confucius 37 The questions can..be comprehended and answered from different points of view:—1. Materialistically... 2. Ideally, or humanistically; from the human-dynamic standpoint... 3. Mystically... 4. Religiously.

1890 Athenæum 26 July 117/3 This may be humanistically true.

1909 W. James Meaning of Truth iii. 79 The reader would conceive the knowing humanistically.

1944 Scrutiny 12 iii. 210 The brilliant vitality of the keyboard writing..itself tends to render this passion more directly and humanistically dramatic than the more religious (if no less intense) keyboard style of Gibbons.

1998 L. Simon Psychol., Educ., Gods, & Humanity iii. 51 I also describe why some individuals become scientists and poets, and others fail to achieve these humanistically important modes of being in the world.