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Stahlian, a. and n.|ˈstɑːlɪən|
[f. the name of G. E. Stahl, a German chemist 1660–1734 + -ian.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Stahl or his doctrines.
a1790Cullen Wks. (1827) I. 405 The Stahlian principle. Ibid. 406 The Stahlian system. 1822–9Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 71 Hoffman..omitted the metaphysical part of the Stahlian hypothesis. 1832J. Thomson Life etc. Cullen I. 179 The Stahlian practice.
B. n. A follower of Stahl; an animist.
a1790Cullen Wks. (1827) I. 22, I am equally remote from the materialists on the one hand, and the Stahlians on the other. 1839Hooper's Lex. Med. (ed. 7) 1217 The Stahlians are also called Animists, and their school is called the Dynamic school. 1876F. H. Butler in Encycl. Brit. V. 461/1 The Stahlians, however, met the difficulty by declaring that substance [phlogiston] to be the principle of levity or negative weight. |