Pascalianadj.n.
/pasˈkɑːlɪən/, /pasˈkalɪən/, U.S. /pæsˈkæliən/ A. adj.
Of, resembling, or relating to Pascal or his ideas and work.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > mathematical philosophy > [adjective] > of the philosophy of Pascal
Pascalian1664
1664 in R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. (1930) VI. 178 Mr. Boyle..being desired to bring..the account..of the Pascalian experiments.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 174 Instead of those Paschalian experiments, there is in this Treatise deliver'd a far more Expeditious way.
1853 L. L. F. Bungener Preacher & King 179 It was somewhat jesuitically, in the Pascalian sense of the word, that Bourdaloue had replied no.
1892 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 403/2 The history of Pascalian criticism would in itself afford suggestive material for study.
1903 Amer. Math. Monthly 10 36 Cayley has considered the question of deriving the Pascalian configuration, by projection, from a pair of tetrahedrals.
1948 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 1 98 A full length study of Pascal by an established Pascalian scholar.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 July 45/4 It was there that she learned to write limpid, classical, aphoristic, Pascalian French prose.
B. n.
An admirer or student of Pascal or of his ideas and work.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > mathematical philosophy > [noun] > adherent of Pascal's philosophy
Pascalian1929
1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 235 I now propose to write of Pascal. As a positivist first of all... More sympathetically next, in the guise of a Pascalian.
1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 26/4 Sennett is thus an atheist about social science, but a Pascalian about society.
1992 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 27 Mar. 20/1 He wrote..about the Pascalian hovering between the ‘wish and the inability to believe’ which he found in Novalis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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