pansophy

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  1. Universal wisdom or knowledge. [Rare.] The French philosophers affect … a sort of pansophy or universality of command over the opinions of men, which can only be supported by the arts of deception. Boothby, On Burke, p. 265. (Latham.)

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  • I can just picture Coldplay fans all around the world twistin ` and turnin ` the CD cover ` bout and puttin ` it under a magnifying glass just to glean an inner sanctum of pansophy from the cardboard. —  The Student Operated Press
  • Next in importance to pansophy or encyclopædism, and closely connected with it, is the principle that a knowledge of words and of things should go hand in hand. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
  • German philosophers made ready to seize upon it with huge mental biceps and labor to incorporate it beneficently into the Teuton pansophy. —  Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
 

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  1. = French pansophie = Portuguese pansophia, from Greek as if *πανσοφία, from πάνσοφος, allwise, from πᾶς (παν-), all, + σοφός, wise.
 

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