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humaˈnistic, a. (n.)
[f. prec. + -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the humanists or classical scholars of the Renascence; classical.
1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 287 A collision between the new and humanistic method [of instruction]..and the old modes, was inevitable. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 753 Erasmus, the most brilliant representative of humanistic culture at the beginning of the sixteenth century. 1885Pater Marius II. 128 The Church was becoming [in the latter part of second century] humanistic, in a best and earliest Renaissance. 1896E. Gosse Crit. Kit-Kats 252 With the accession of humanistic ideas, he [Pater] had gradually lost all belief in the Christian religion.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of humanism. (Cf. humanism 5.)
1904W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) xxxii. 451 But humanistic empiricism will have many other steps forward to make before it conquers all antagonisms. 1923B. Russell Prospects Industr. Civilization ii. xiii. 266 The distinction between the mechanistic and the humanistic conceptions of excellence is the most fundamental of all distinctions between rival sets of ideals. Ibid., The humanistic conception..regards the good as something existing in the lives of individuals, and conceives social co-operation as only valuable in so far as it ministers to the welfare of the several citizens. 1932C. K. Ogden Jeremy Bentham 9 It was to French influences, to Fénélon, to Helvétius and to Voltaire,..that Bentham owed his first humanistic stimulus. 1961B. Wootton in J. S. Huxley Humanist Frame 350 Plainly, what is actually happening in the world is the result of the accommodation of religions to evolving humanistic ideas and not vice versa. 1968H. J. Eysenck in A. J. Ayer Humanist Outlook 271 The future of humanistic thought on this subject is completely bound up with the growth of psychological knowledge—without this it must remain nothing more than an alternative superstition.
B. n. pl. humanistics: Humanistic or classical studies or writings.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Crit. Hist. 2 Pomey's Onomasticks, and Tachard's Lexographicks, and Rapin's Critical Humanisticks..are far surpass'd by our Oxford Grammar. 1952Koestler Arrow in Blue xxvi. 240, I would shift the emphasis in popular education from stale humanistics to a lively comprehension of the mysteries of the universe and life. |