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Heraclitic, a. and n.|hɛrəˈklɪtɪk|
[f. Hēraclītus (see prec.) + -ic.]
A. adj. = Heraclitean.
B. n. A follower of Heraclitus. So Heraˈclitical a.; ˈHeraclitism = Heracliteanism.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §28. 133 That even the Zenonian and Heraclitick Deity it self, was no other than such a plastick nature. Ibid. iv. §31. 387 Singular and Sensible Things, which, as the Heracliticks rightly affirmed, do indeed all flow. a1688― Etern. Morality ii. ii. §1 (1731) 45 The true meaning of the Heraclitical Philosophy was plainly this, That there is no other being in the World besides Individual Body or Matter. 1788Chambers' Cycl., Heraclitism..the philosophy of Heraclitus..The fundamental doctrine..was, that fire is the principle of all things. 1882R. Adamson in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 784/2 The Eleatic doctrine that only unity has real being, the Heraclitic counter-doctrine that only in change, in the many, is truth to be found. |