ideologicaladj.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 286 Tracy..exhibits..a summary table of such ideological truths, as he conceives to be evident.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iv. i. §4 Abstinence..from ideological discussions.

1886 Proc. Philol. Soc. 4 June p. xliii He had compiled lists of ideological indices for over two hundred languages.

1899 H. Sweet Pract. Study Langs. xii. 154 A logical or ideological dictionary is one in which words, idioms, and phrases are grouped under the different categories of space, time, matter, sensation, emotion, etc., with as much logical continuity as is possible.

1995 D. M. T. C. Farina tr. L. V. Shcherba in Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 8 332 A dictionary can be organized by meanings, that is by the concepts expressed by the phonetic form of the words (an ideological dictionary).

1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 407 Hence arises what Napoleon has called the ideological race of men.

1862 C. A. Heurtley in Repl. ‘Ess. & Rev.’ 167 It is an insult to his understanding to ask him to allow a so-called ideological application to supplant the natural and obvious meaning.

1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Oct. 10 If these tendencies are to be classified at all, they can only be classed in two divisions—the ideological (I intentionally avoid the word idealistic) and the materialistic.

1914 Atlantic Monthly June 775/1 If Mr. Mencken's earnest seekers after truth wish to evolve ideological schemes of municipal taxation..then, indeed, the newspaper discussions of these questions would be bewildering to these visionary workers in the realms of pure reason.

1873 Times 15 Sept. 6/1 No more Marxists, no more Backounists, but the sincere alliance of the real working men. The cause of disunion has arisen from..1, Exuberant personalities; 2, philosophical, religious, or ideological doctrines substituted for aim [sic] of the Association [etc.].

1903 Social Democrat Feb. 88 Both ultra-revolutionaryism and opportunism..rest in contradistinction to Marxism on an ideological or quasi-ideological basis.

1925 M. Eastman Since Lenin Died iv. 32 Without realising this, you cannot penetrate beneath the ideological surface of the dispute which followed.

1937 Times 2 Nov. 17/2 Japan will be an absentee at Brussels... So will Germany... The inconvenience, to say no more, of ideological attitudes has been very swiftly illustrated.

1938 Fortune Sept. 108/3 He is in a peculiarly advantageous position to form logical opinions about the great ideological warfare being waged today.

1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lv. 56 But his brat was run by his missus And they had an ideological war.

1963 Daily Tel. 14 Oct. 12/2 Though it has been left this year to Albania to sponsor Communist China's membership, it will still be supported by her newly declared ideological foe, the Soviet Union, and by the victim of her aggression, India.

1989 Sunday Times 19 Feb. (Business section) 10/1 These conditions sprang not merely from a Reaganesque ideological belief in market mechanisms.

2000 C. Kramarae & D. Spender Routledge Internat. Encycl. Women III. 1589/1 Since World War II they have been divided primarily along ideological lines, with North Korea and China in the socialist camp and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea pursuing capitalist strategies of development.