pantheistn.adj.

1702 Hist. Wks. Learned Aug. 499 Some there were who asserted a certain Universal Substance, as well Material as Intelligent, which formed all things whatever out of its Essence, and hence they were call'd Pantheists.

1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope III. 31 We are parts of him, his offspring, as the Greek poet, a pantheist quoted by the Apostle, observes: And the reason is, because a religious theist and an impious pantheist both profess to believe the omnipresence of God.

1778 E. Apthorp Lett. Prevalence Christianity 223 He is therefore a Spinozist or a philosophic pantheist.

1845 J. H. Newman in W. Ward Life Cardinal Newman (1912) I. 80 He dies a Pantheist denying that there is an Ultramundane God.

1876 W. E. Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. June 24 I am by no means sure that Dante is not a Pantheist.

1940 E. S. Brightman Philos. of Relig. v. 141 Thinkers like Hegel and Royce objected to being called pantheists.

1999 Guardian 22 May i. 26/2 Pantheists treat the universe and nature with the same sort of bated breath, awe, submission, love and a sense of belonging that believers feel for their gods.

1906 Academy 10 Nov. 482/1 As pantheist Agnostics or even as panlogists, they have their chances of seeing [etc.].

1934 W. Lewis Men without Art iii. iii. 273 Soon the features of another divinity, this time pantheist and Spinozistic, are seen to emerge.

1995 Independent on Sunday 3 Sept. (Review Suppl.) 52/4 The predominant religious group remains the animists, whose pantheist beliefs are dominated by the cult of ancestors, and by rituals connected with rain and fertility.