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philosophistical, a. rare or Obs.|fɪlɒsəʊˈfɪstɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -ical.]
Of the nature of or pertaining to philosophists; rationalistic, sceptical.
1805T. Harral Scenes of Life I. 22 In the garden of Eden—if our philosophistical gentry will admit that such a place ever existed. 1812Southey Ess. (1832) I. 80 Against this Goliath of the philosophistical Canaanites, Mr. Malthus stept forth. 1820― Wesley II. xxvi. 401 He brought away a taint of that philosophistical infidelity which was then beginning to infect half-learned men. |