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philosophistic

philosophistic adjective: exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.

Adjective

philosophistic (comparative more philosophistic, superlative most philosophistic)

  1. Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.
    • That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated.1845, Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Apocalypse - Volume 2, page 420
    • A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures.1993, Vincent Descombes, The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Events, page 45

Forms of philosophistic

comparativemore philosophistic
superlativemost philosophistic

Origin of philosophistic

From philo- + sophistic.

Questions about philosophistic

What does philosophistic mean?
Philosophistic means exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.
What part of speech is philosophistic?
Philosophistic is an adjective.

Words near philosophistic in the dictionary

  1. philosophising
  2. philosophisings
  3. philosophism
  4. philosophisms
  5. philosophist
  6. philosophistic
  7. philosophistical
  8. philosophists
  9. philosophizability
  10. philosophizable
  11. philosophization

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