Rosicrucianismn.
/ˌrəʊzᵻˈkruːʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌrəʊzᵻˈkruːʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌroʊzəˈkruʃəˌnɪzəm/, /ˌrɑzəˈkruʃəˌnɪzəm/ The principles or practice of the Rosicrucian Society, or of any of the later organizations deriving from this; Rosicrucian thought.
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1698 J. Sergeant Non Vltra 6 This looks like a kind of Rosycrucianism in Philosophy.
a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) IV. 44 Had Arnobius..lived in our days, you would have been..made the father of rosycrucianism.
1850 Fraser's Mag. 42 528 The Rosicrucianism of so vigorously-minded a man as Samuel Johnson.
1878 Catholic World Mar. 841 Bulwer..found it necessary to have recourse to a sort of Rosicrucianism, or..a pagan Swedenborgianism.
1931 Amer. Mercury Jan. 34/1 Almost always it turns out that his meditations run in the direction of rosicrucianism, the Single Tax, farm relief, or some other such insanity.
1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic ix. 269 The notion that purity of life was an essential preliminary to scientific discovery..shaped the Rosicrucianism of the seventeenth century.
1998 H. Lind Making Sense of Advertising 4 One would expect widespread ignorance about quantum mechanics or rosicrucianism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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