Gassendistn.
/ɡaˈsɛndɪst/, U.S. /ɡæˈsɛndəst/ A follower of Gassendi or his ideas.Gassendi was influenced by the atomism of Epicurus and was critical of both Aristotelian and Cartesian philosophy.
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Gassendist1681
1681 Some Advices 56 in R. Boyle Disc. Things above Reason The Learned Gassendus and his Followers, have introduc'd a third sort of things, as not being either Substances, or Accidents... Of this kind of things, the Gassendists make Place or Space to be.
1762 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. X. 176 The Cartesians, the Gassendists, and other modern philosophers, must allow that the motion, the situation, and the configuration of the parts of matter are sufficient for the production of all natural effects.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes Eng. Divines (1853) I. 280 Taylor was a Gassendist.
1855 Q. Rev. Oct. 174/2 The opposite schools of Gassendists and Cartesians were at variance with each other, but they were one and all struggling with the authority of the Church.
1903 Internat. Q. 8 89 Molière had been a zealous Gassendist.
1950 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 8 14 The schism between Cartesians and Gassendists..forms an ever-recurring theme in the writings of Robert Boyle.
2000 T. M. Schmaltz in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 160/2 There were other critics of the Aristotelianism of the schools, most notably in France, Pierre Gassendi..and the Gassendists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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