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Definition of Agnostical
1. Adjective. Uncertain of all claims to knowledge.
Similar to: Nescient, Unbelieving
Antonyms: Gnostic
Derivative terms: Agnostic, Agnostic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agnostical
Literary usage of Agnostical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"Ennui will come later: in the meantime she is sceptical or agnostical about it.
Meantime it is rapture to go and to come, without ordering the carriage an ..."
2. Shakespeare on the Stage by William Winter (1911)
"... elocution neither domestic infelicity nor the paternal spectre can disturb is
not Shakespeare's Hamlet; neither is the latter-day, agnostical cynic. ..."
3. Introduction to Philosophy by Friedrich Paulsen (1906)
"This would be the standpoint of agnostical monism, which Herbert Spencer occupies.
So much for the historical orientation. We now enter upon the real ..."
4. Essays and Addresses by Augustine Birrell (1901)
"... have carried and planted in the middle of the field of physical science the
very agnostical flag which forty years ago the men of science had so ..."
5. Essays and Addresses by Augustine Birrell (1901)
"... have carried and planted in the middle of the field of physical science the
very agnostical flag which forty years ago the men of science had so ..."
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