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philosophism|fɪˈlɒsəfɪz(ə)m|
[a. F. philosophisme (1690 in Littré), f. Gr. ϕιλόσοϕ-ος (see philosoph): cf. sophism.]
Philosophizing, or a philosophizing system; usually, in a hostile sense, affectation of philosophy; applied esp. to the system of the French Encyclopædists.
1792R. Valpy Progr. Morality (1793) 47 note, Would the philologer..be offended, if the term Philosophism were hazarded, to express the abuse, or the reverse, of Philosophy? 1799Kett Prophecy (1805) II. 206 The power which trained in the Schools of Philosophism, assumed the dress of mildness, virtue, and religion. 1799Coleridge Lett., to Southey (1895) 307 And so philosophisms fly to and fro, in series of imitated imitations. 1813Eustace Class. Tour (1821) III. ix. 353 To replace the bullion of ancient wisdom by the tinsel of Gallic philosophism. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iv. i, The Dryasdust Philosophisms and enlightened Scepticisms. 1848J. H. Newman Loss & Gain i. ix. (1858) 62 His father had always held up Pope's Universal Prayer to him as a pattern specimen of shallow philosophism. |