Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tius.
Examples
-
Helvétius is a philosopher of the political solicitation and organization of passions — the paramount of which is fear (32).
Romantic Fear 2008
-
Nobody who has visited the Imperial Library at Paris can forget the very pleasant autograph note of Franklin in French to Madame Helvétius, which is exhibited in the same case with an autograph note of Henry IV. to Gabrielle d'Estrées.] [Footnote 37: Tom.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
-
At dawn, I was taken from the house of Caiaphas and brought to a small chamber near the court of Pon - tius Pilate.
The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997
-
On those words, therefore, Pon - tius Pilate left his hall of judgment to take counsel, and when he came back, he asked more questions of these priests, and they said that I had forbidden everyone to give tribute to Caesar and that I called myself a king.
The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997
-
According to Cicero one of the later Stoics, Panae - tius (second century B.C.), did not accept the doctrine of the ekpyrosis.
CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968
-
Locke's repudiation of innate ideas, his belief that the mind of every human being was shaped by experience after birth, was taken up in France by Condillac and Helvé - tius, and widely formulated as the associationist psy - chology, which became a premiss of educational and other reform.
EQUALITY R. R. PALMER 1968
-
The art his - torian Richard Hamann suggested the applicability of impressionism to a period in literature in his Der Im - pressionismus in Leben und Kunst (1907); the Czech art historian Max Dvořák was apparently the first to suggest the term “mannerism” for literature which has been taken up most influentially by Ernst Robert Cur - tius in his Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mit - telalter (Bern, 1948).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968
-
But although this doctrine of the will as a capacity not determined by the causal stream is directed against the sensationalist positivism of Helvé - tius or Condillac, and has an affinity to Kant's free moral will, it does not leave the objective framework of Natural Law which governs things as well as per -
THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968
-
With regard to discontinuity in the universe Lucre - tius avers, as did Democritus long before him, that, by conjunction and disjunction of atoms, numerous
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
-
Lucre - tius even seems to suggest, in words of his own — what is apparently not in the extant reports about
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.