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Spinozism|spɪˈnəʊzɪz(ə)m|
Also 8 Spinocism, -osaism, 8–9 Spinosism, 20 Spinozaism.
[f. the name of the philosopher Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77). So F. spinosisme.]
The philosophical doctrines of Spinoza, or the general principle underlying these; pantheism as represented by Spinoza.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., The great Principle of Spinosism is, That there is nothing properly and absolutely existing, but Matter, and the Modifications of Matter. 1740Warburton Vind. Pope's Ess. Man 24 Spinozism is the Destruction of an Universe, where every Thing tends..to the Perfection of the Whole. 1757Law Lett. Import. Subj. 177 As Spinocism is nothing else but a gross confounding of God and nature. a1765Stukeley Mem. (Surtees). I. 127 He wrote a treatise against Mr. Pope's essay on man, to prove it to be atheism, spinosaism, deism,.. & what not. 1821Coleridge Lett., Convers., etc. I. 25 To guard my own character from the suspicions of pantheistic opinions, or Spinosism. 1881Adamson Fichte 130 The theoretical part..is nothing but an inverted or idealistic Spinozism. 1912Q. Rev. Oct. 393 Modern Spinozaism is inclined to identify ethics with religion. |