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Definition of Cretism
1. n. A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.
Definition of Cretism
1. a lie [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cretism
Literary usage of Cretism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1896)
"... who succeeded Carneades by a somewhat ingenious form of critical eclecticism,
and then by at yn- cretism that indiscriminately combined the doctrine. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Significant are not only the evident ancestry, and a tendency to syn- cretism,
but also the esteem in which abiding secrecy which veiled the proceedings. ..."
3. History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1866)
"cretism of opinions, instead of leading to peace and charity, seemed to inflame
the deadly animosity; and the philosophical spirit, which attempted to blend ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"Indeed, the tendency to con- cretism had gone so far that the life of the augud
was supposed to reside in the stone that lay beneath the image,1 and certain ..."
5. Essays and Reviews Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism by Orestes Augustus Brownson (1887)
"cretism, gathering itself up as a grand and well-organized superstition to wage
war once more on the old Alexandrian battleground, with the old Alexandrian ..."
6. Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers (1899)
"... 63. syn'cretism : 283-284. tab'ula: 59. taxation : by Servius Tullius, 33 :
incident illustrating, 41 ; upon possessors of public land, ..."
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