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sceptical, skeptical, a.|ˈskɛptɪkəl|
[f. sceptic + -al1.]
a. Of persons: Inclined to or imbued with scepticism (in the various senses of that word); in modern use often, dubious or incredulous.
b. Of doctrines, opinions, etc.: Characteristic of a sceptic; of the nature of scepticism.
1639Fuller Holy War iv. v. (1640) 176 Desiring rather to be scepticall then definitive in the causes of Gods judgements. 1660Pepys Diary 15 May, My Lord and I walked together..talking together upon..religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. 42 There is no Sort of Ground for being thus presumptuous, even upon the most sceptical Principles. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. 1821 VII. 82 There were at that time, it seems, in Calcutta a wicked sceptical set of people, who somehow or other believed, that human agency was concerned in this elective [? read electric] flash, which came so very opportunely. 1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sci. (1847) II. 465 The Catastrophist's dogmatism is undermined by the Uniformitarian's skeptical hypotheses. 1870Baldw. Brown Eccl. Truth 231 There is a sense in which every age is..bound to be sceptical. 1884Ryle Princ. Churchmen (ed. 2) 435 Many a sceptical saying is nothing more than a borrowed article, picked up and retailed by him who says it, because it seems clever. 1885Pater Marius I. 157 He continued the sceptical argument he had commenced. |