Pythagoreanismn.

1675 R. Ferguson Interest of Reason in Relig. i. 243 Both Irenaeus and Tertullian affirm the Errors of the Gnosticks to have sprung from the Platonick Ideas; Though I think it not improbable, but that their συζυγίαι & γενεαλογίαι took their birth from Pythagoreanism.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Pythagoreanism, the Doctrine or Principles of the Pythagoreans.

1828 N. P. Willis Legendary II. 106 Dear Tom, I have bored you with my Pythagoreanism, but it has brooded on me all day, and I must tell somebody.

1865 Sat. Rev. 4 Nov. 577 There is, by the way, a slight sniff of Pythagoreanism about the phrase ‘appreciative numbers’.

1888 Times 21 Jan. 12/6 We should certainly not have expected to find indications of Pythagoreanism on a Hittite seal, but there were the facts, however they were to be accounted for, whether by the foreign travels of Pythagoras or otherwise.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 106/1 Xenocrates, though like Speusippus infected with Pythagoreanism, was the most faithful of Plato's successors.

1945 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 65 25 If it has roots in any earlier doctrine, I should be inclined to look for them, as did the ancients, in Pythagoreanism rather than in Persia.

2001 Classical Philol. 96 3 He recognized in the author a late representative of Pythagoreanism, with doctrines resembling those of Ecphantus.