α. 1700s– algebraism.
β. 1700s 1900s– algebrism.
algebraismn.
/ˈaldʒᵻbreɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈældʒəbreɪˌɪz(ə)m/ rare before 20th cent.
Algebra; an algebraic operation or expression. In later use frequently figurative: excessive or inappropriate use of symbols; an instance of this.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Algebraism, or Algebrism, is affectedly used, in some writers, for algebra itself. In which sense, we read of the application of algebraism.
1870 Eng. Mech. 3 June 258/1 I will engage to prove that the algebraism is no advantage; and that the point can be discovered, easier and better when the whole science of algebra has been utterly discarded.
1960 J. Puhvel Laryngeals & Indo-European Verb 62 Each of these [studies] indirectly mirrors dissatisfaction with past and current approaches.., from the cavalier algebrism of Kurylowicz..to exaggerated hunts for embedded relics in historical languages.
1980 J. P. Leavey tr. J. Derrida Archeol. of Frivolous ii. 60 This simplifying criticism..bore..on his empiricism and his formalism, on his sensationalist or geneticist psychologism and his logicist algebraism.
1986 Cultural Anthropol. 1 135 Our interests in dialog, poetry, and orality are vectors of a single urge to recover a sounding sense deadened by algebraisms without the sense of sound or the sound of sense.
2010 M. Leng in G. Hanna et al. Explan. & Proof Math. iv. 52 Concerns about whether global algebraism is possible as a view of axiomatic mathematical theories.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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