a. and sb. [f. as prec. + -AN.]
A. adj. 1. = CORPUSCULAR 2.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., Pref. 7. The Atomical and Corpuscularian Philosophers.
1685. Boyle, Enq. Notion Nat., 15. Epicurean and other Corpuscularian Infidels.
1741. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. 339, note. The Atomic or Corpuscularian Physiology.
1837. McCulloch, Attrib. God, II. 444. My object is not either to detail the corpuscularian hypothesis or to controvert it.
† 2. = CORPUSCULAR 1. Obs.
1705. Berkeley, Commonpl. Bk., Wks. IV. 433. The corpuscularian essences of bodies.
B. sb. An adherent of the corpuscular or atomic philosophy, or of the corpuscular theory of light.
1667. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., 1. I will assume the person of a Corpuscularian.
1797. Encycl. Brit., II. 484/2. Though the philosophy of Des Cartes resembled that of the Corpuscularians.
1837. McCulloch, Attrib. God (1843), II. 391. The idlest dreams of the Corpuscularians.
