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theosopher|θiːˈɒsəfə(r)|
[f. theosophy, or med.L. theosoph-us (Scotus Erigena a 880) theosoph + -er1: cf. philosopher.]
= theosophist. (Applied spec. to Jacob Boehme, ‘the Teutonic Theosopher’, and his followers.)
1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 18 Have an extraordinary care..of the late Theosophers, that teach men to climbe to heaven upon a ladder of lying figments. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 72 Laying down such Conclusions as the Naturalists and Theosophers in all Ages have looked upon as the choicest and most precious. 1755T. Amory Mem. (1766) II. 73 note, Jacob Behemen, the reverend theosopher. 1782Gentl. Mag. LII. 329/1 The true and infallible ground of what he there advanced was to be found in the Teutonic Theosopher, in his three first Properties of Eternal Nature. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. I. viii. §2. 234 These books..which have procured him [Boehme] the name of the Theosopher. 1881Overton W. Law 269 Hitherto Law has been presented to us in this chapter rather as a theosopher than as a mystic proper. |