单词 | theosophistic |
释义 | theosophisticadj. a. Of the nature of or pertaining to a theosophist or theosophy (in sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning God or a god > [adjective] > theosophical theosophical1642 theosophic1649 theosophistical1814 theosophistic1849 theosophizing1858 1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress II. iii. xiii. 184 (note) The theosophistic, cabalistic Dr. Joel. 1856 C. J. Ellicott in Cambr. Ess. 169 The main facts of Christianity..interwoven with the theosophistic speculations, the mystical doctrines..that were so dear to the hybrid Christian of Alexandria. 1857 C. J. Ellicott Comm. Coloss. Introd. (1861) 111 To warn the Colossians against a system of false teaching, partly Oriental and Theosophistic in its character, and partly Judaical and ceremonial. 1897 Daily News 5 Feb. 6/7 The theurgic and theosophistic obscurities of Kabbalistic writings. b. Of or pertaining to theosophy n. (in sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > relating to theosophy theosophistical1814 theosophical1881 theosophistic1886 theosophic1902 1886 Athenæum 9 Jan. 68/3 Mr. Cumberland..in India is studying theosophistic philosophy on the spot. Derivatives theosoˈphistical adj. in same sense (but with disparaging implication). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > relating to theosophy theosophistical1814 theosophical1881 theosophistic1886 theosophic1902 society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning God or a god > [adjective] > theosophical theosophical1642 theosophic1649 theosophistical1814 theosophistic1849 theosophizing1858 1814 P. B. Shelley Refut. Deism in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 292 To shew how much the cause of natural and revealed Religion has suffered from the mode of defence adopted by Theosophistical Christians. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 4/2 The disingenuousness of this very Theosophistical letter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1814 |
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