单词 | philosophistical |
释义 | philosophisticaladj. Now rare. Of the nature of philosophism or philosophists; = philosophistic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scepticism > [adjective] philosophistical1799 philosophistic1810 1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. 3 App. 500 The author supposes that the philosophistical sect existed long before the time of Voltaire. 1805 T. Harral Scenes of Life I. 22 In the garden of Eden—if our philosophistical gentry will admit that such a place ever existed. 1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. xxvi. 401 He brought away a taint of that philosophistical infidelity which was then beginning to infect half-learned men. 1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 80 Against this Goliath of the philosophistical Canaanites, Mr. Malthus stept forth. 2000 Hypatia (Nexis) 15 102 A more intelligent form of terrorizing rears its head, if we are to believe the philosophistical rewriting of the history of philosophy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1799 |
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