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Definition of Philosophic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to philosophy or philosophers. "A considerable knowledge of philosophical terminology"

2. Adjective. Characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment. "A philosophic attitude toward life"

Definition of Philosophic

1. a. Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool.

Definition of Philosophic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to philosophy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Philosophic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Philosophic

philosophating philosophation philosophations philosophe philosopheme philosophemes philosopher philosopher's game philosopher's stone philosopher's wool

philosopher king philosopheress philosophers philosophes philosophia perennis philosophic (current term) philosophical philosophical doctrine philosophical method philosophical system

philosophical theory philosophicall philosophically philosophick philosophie philosophied philosophies philosophise philosophised philosophiser

Literary usage of Philosophic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"8 Geschichte der neueren philosophic, 8 vols., Mannheim and Heidelberg, ... philosophic seit Kant, Berlin, 1876; Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought ..."

2. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber, Frank Thilly (1896)
"8 Histoire de la philosophic allemande depuis Leibniz jum/u'a nos jours, Paris, 1836. 4 Geschichte der letzten Systeme der philosophic in ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"And this same tendency shows itself in Herbert's poem of The Church Militant, which is a kind of historical essay in verse, full of philosophic ideas, ..."

4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"A brief review of the more important branches of philosophic ornithology will show how rich a field is open to the student of birds. ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"They destroyed the foundations of revelation and theology, and led to the rise of new philosophic systems aiming at the interpretation and correlation of ..."

6. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"William Shakespeare1 is the best text-book of the later and worse state; the Prefaces to the Cromwell,3 to the Orientales? and the Literature et philosophic ..."

7. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1877)
"We must take into consideration also the wide difference between the philosophic poet and the pure poetic artist. The feeling of Virgil towards philosophy ..."

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