Thomistn.adj.
/ˈtəʊmɪst/, U.S. /ˈtoʊməst/ Christian Church.
a. A follower of Thomas Aquinas (known as ‘The Angelical Doctor’), a scholastic philosopher and theologian of the 13th cent. (Cf. Scotist n. and adj.)
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > Thomism > adherent of
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society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > individual fathers > doctrine of > follower of
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1359 J. Wyclif Wks. (1905) 127 Thomiste qui sanctum Thomam secuntur.]
1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde B iij (margin) Thomistes be the schole docters.
1669 T. Gale True Idea Jansenisme 58 No doubt there are such small Graces, as the Thomists call sufficient.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 26 Scotists and Thomists, now, in Peace remain, Amidst their kindred Cobwebs in Duck-Lane.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1233/1 The Thomists continued as a sect to the commencement of the seventeenth century.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 658 The controversy between Thomists and Scotists..concerning the exemption of Mary from hereditary sin.
b. attributive or as adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [adjective] > individual
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Origenical1600
Origenian1661
Origenic1678
angelic1826
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Thomistic1881
Isidorian1882
neo-Thomist1925
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 485 She was that same thomist aristotelic church, with which he was engaged in a mortal struggle.
1884 Mind 9 159 The Thomist philosophy, now again authoritatively proclaimed to be the sheet-anchor of Catholic doctrine.
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