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Hobbism|ˈhɒbɪz(ə)m|
[f. Hobb(es, (see Hobbesian) + -ism.]
The philosophy or principles of Thomas Hobbes.
1691W. Nicholls Answ. Naked Gospel 90 A mixture of Platonism, Hobbism, and Sabellianism. 1706Hearne Collect. 26 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 235 Y⊇..Scheme savours of Hobbism. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §1. 602 ‘Hobbism’ became, ere he [Thomas Hobbes] died, the popular synonym for irreligion and immorality.
So ˈHobbist, an advocate or adherent of Hobbism, a disciple of Hobbes; attrib. = hobbesian. Hoˈbbistical a., of, pertaining to, or according to the Hobbists. ˈHobbize v. intr., to philosophize in the way of Hobbes.
1681Baxter Search Schism ii. 19 Swearers and Atheists, *Hobbists and wicked men are members of their Church. 1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (1806) II. 47 With all the malignity of a discontented Hobbist. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 357 Every man who ventured to think for himself was stigmatized as a Hobbist, or as it was sometimes called a Hobbian. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §1. 602 The Hobbist philosophy.
1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. vii. 238 He only acts by an *Hobbistical Fatality.
1696J. Edwards Demonstr. Exist. God ii. 109 We must not surmise that this great man began to *Hobbize. |