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deistical, a.|diːˈɪstɪkəl| [f. as prec. + -al1.] = prec.; also, inclined or tending to deism.
1741Watts Improv. Mind i. v. §3 To support the deistical or antichristian scheme of our days. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 314 The ingenious and eloquent, but deistical J. J. Rousseau. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 54 Concerning the right of punishing by law the authors of heretical or deistical writings. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. ix. 168 My object was to show my deistical friends..that they were in no better condition than we were. Hence deˈistically adv., in a deistical way.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1608 Nature..may be conceived of deistically, as an accomplished fact..utterly external to God. |