Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or teaching wisdom; sapiential.
  • Relating to the philosophic opinions of man, including the beliefs of primitive tribes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Teaching wisdom.

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  • adjective obsolete Teaching wisdom.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek σοφός (sophos, "skilled, wise") + English -ic.

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Examples

  • This concept suggests that all metals are composed of different proportions of a sophic sulphur and a sophic mercury.

    ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968

  • As a philo - sophic theory and world view, it was a tradition de - scending from ancient Epicureanism, and opposed to mysticism, Platonism, and metaphysical dualism.

    IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

  • The Hindu conception of deity combines, or rather comprises, two distinctive traditions, which might be conveniently designated the “popular” and the “philo - sophic.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

  • It might be thus congenial for one period of history to be imbued with a religious world outlook, yet this world outlook is superseded by another spirit of the time which is scientific or philo - sophic and thus overcomes the limitations and the validity of the religious world outlook.

    ZEITGEIST NATHAN ROTENSTREICH 1968

  • Although there are other such vestiges of pre-philo - sophic ideas among earliest Greek philosophers, Greek philosophy's formal beginnings succeeded in making considerable advances beyond this style of thought.

    CAUSATION JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

  • Some belong to the literature of whimsy and escape, others to science fiction, a considerable number to satire, and many to that ill-defined genre, the philo - sophic tale.

    UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

  • This concept suggests that all metals are composed of different proportions of a sophic sulphur and a sophic mercury.

    Alchemy 1968

  • These questions were not merely of technical philo - sophic interest.

    IDEA GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • Dante as the poet who synthesized previous philo - sophic, literary, and popular ideas brings a vast eclec - ticism into the concepts of Fortune, Fate, and Chance.

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • This view developed as a result of two things; first, the publica - tion in 1932 of Marx's manuscripts written in 1844 before Marx had become a Marxist (on the other two views), which the editors entitled Economic and Philo - sophic Manuscripts, and second, the revolt against

    MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968

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