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Definition of Plenists
1. plenist [n] - See also: plenist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plenists
Literary usage of Plenists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"... two of the most notorious of the plenists In some of his physical views he
was almost a Cartesian Hobbes did not admit the condensation or rarefaction ..."
2. A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics by George Farrer Rodwell (1873)
"Centuries later, this question was discussed : on the one side, the plenists
asserted that a vacuum (or space perfectly devoid of matter) was an ..."
3. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1857)
"This was in accordance with the ancient doctrine of the plenists, who denied the
... So long was the error of the plenists maintained, observes Switzer, ..."
4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1851)
"This %vas in accordance with the ancient doctrine of the plenists, who denied the
... So long was the error of the plenists maintained, observes Switzer, ..."
5. Selections from the British Apollo: Containing Answers to Curious Questions by G. W. Niven, British Apollo (1903)
"Q. Whether the air, which the plenists hold is the medium employed by nature for
the filling ... Could the plenists prove their plenum by the same argument, ..."
6. Selections from the British Apollo: Containing Answers to Curious Questions by G. W. Niven, British Apollo (1903)
"Q. Whether the air, which the plenists hold is the medium employed by nature for
the filling ... Could the plenists prove their plenum by the same argument, ..."
7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"... two of the most notorious of the plenists In some of his physical views he
was almost a Cartesian Hobbes did not admit the condensation or rarefaction ..."
8. A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics by George Farrer Rodwell (1873)
"Centuries later, this question was discussed : on the one side, the plenists
asserted that a vacuum (or space perfectly devoid of matter) was an ..."
9. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1857)
"This was in accordance with the ancient doctrine of the plenists, who denied the
... So long was the error of the plenists maintained, observes Switzer, ..."
10. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1851)
"This %vas in accordance with the ancient doctrine of the plenists, who denied the
... So long was the error of the plenists maintained, observes Switzer, ..."
11. Selections from the British Apollo: Containing Answers to Curious Questions by G. W. Niven, British Apollo (1903)
"Q. Whether the air, which the plenists hold is the medium employed by nature for
the filling ... Could the plenists prove their plenum by the same argument, ..."
12. Selections from the British Apollo: Containing Answers to Curious Questions by G. W. Niven, British Apollo (1903)
"Q. Whether the air, which the plenists hold is the medium employed by nature for
the filling ... Could the plenists prove their plenum by the same argument, ..."
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