1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 33 Now the new Academicks [Gk. οἱ ἐκ τῆς νέας Ἀκαδημίας], before Phantasie which is simply credible, preferre that which is credible and circumcurrent.

1685 tr. A. Arnauld & P. Nicole Logic iv. i. 160 Of which Philosophers, some there are who deny certainty, admitting Probability, and these are the new Academics [Fr. les nouveaux Academiciens].

1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus v. 280 For all that, I'll venture to dissuade you from following the new Academicks [L. ab hac Academia nova], and bespeak you in behalf of the Old ones.

1744 W. Guthrie in tr. Cicero Morals Introd. p. v Thus, The New Academic, by admitting a Degree of Comprehension, preserv'd a Principle of Agency.

1888 Mind 13 136 Their ‘doubt’, like that of the Sceptics of all periods, including the New Academics, stopped short of phenomena.

1981 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 42 4 That story is repeated by Cicero without caution or reservation in a formulation borrowed from the New Academics.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 296 The boldest sects, both Epicurian, Pyrrhonian and new Academike [Fr. nouuelle Academique],..are compelled to stoope to the civill law.

1874 J. S. Reid Cicero's Academica p. lvi Cicero..merely attaches Philo's name to those general New Academic doctrines which had been so brilliantly supported by the pupil of Clitomachus in his earlier days.