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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Reducing a determinate problem to an indeterminate one.

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  1. adj. Of or relating to a porism; of the nature of a porism.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.

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  1. Ancient Greek. (Wiktionary)

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  • “a subject of interest not only for its assigning to every author his fair share of credit for his contributions towards perfecting the poristic method; but for that _critical discrimination of principles_, which constitutes one of the marked features of Mr. Davies's writings in the archæology of geometry.”

    Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850

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