pantheisticadj.
/ˌpanθɪˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌpænθiˈɪstɪk/ 1. Of or relating to pantheists or pantheism.
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1732 D. Waterland Christianity vindicated against Infidelity 44 The Pantheistick System..supposes God and Nature, or God and the whole Universe, to be one and the same Substance, one Universal Being; insomuch that Mens Souls are only Modifications of the divine Substance.
1842 Promethean Mar. 56/2 Language must be changed to convey pantheistic expression, and on Pantheism is our Communitive system built.
1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. iv. 118 The pantheistic theory..has descended from the school of Pythagoras to these latter times.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxvii. 85 The confused beliefs which she held, apparently imbibed in childhood, were, if anything, Tractarian as to phraseology, and Pantheistic as to essence.
1914 Philos. Rev. 23 92 The author does not pause to criticise this view, which he regards as pantheistic rather than theistic.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 76/3 Should we regret having to abandon many poetic illusions of the vast, pantheistic or animalistic interpretation of the world?
1994 Guardian 13 June ii. 7/2 The Habad philosophy is pantheistic (‘all is God’).
2. That combines the symbols or attributes of many gods in a single image. Cf. pantheic adj. rare.
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 878/1 Pantheistic,..a term applied to statues and figures.
1921 Brit. Mus. Return 60 Statuette of Athena-Isis-Fortuna; a pantheistic combination of attributes hitherto unknown.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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