单词 | declinist |
释义 | declinistn. (See quot. 1831.)Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1831 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 122 [Dr. Brewster] has now chosen to fancy that we are all banded together to oppose his favourite doctrine of the decline of science; though the only professor who has written at all on the subject is Babbage, the leader of the Declinists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1831 |
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