a. and sb. [f. L. Aristotelē-us, Gr. Ἀριστοτέλει-ος + -AN]; also Aristotelian. [f. L. Aristotelēs, Gr. Ἀριστοτέλης + -IAN: cf. Christian.] (The latter more common.) A. adj. Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher, or to his system. B. sb. One who follows, or is skilled in, the philosophy of Aristotle. Hence Aristotelianism, the philosophic system or any doctrine of Aristotle. Similarly: Aristotelic, a. [Gr. Ἀριστοτελικ-ός] and † Aristotelical a. = Aristotelian. Aristotelism and † Aristotelity (rare–1) = Aristotelianism. Aristotelize v., to lean towards or teach the system of Aristotle.

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1607.  Topsell, Serpents, 653. What sense I should give to that *Aristotelean Proverb.

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1684.  T. Burnet, Th. Earth, III. 15. Those of the Jews that were *Aristoteleans.

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1840.  Carlyle, Heroes (1858), 249. School-divinity, *Aristotelean logic.

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1581.  Charke in Confer., IV. (1584), Cc ij b. Hermogenes … saying as an *Aristotelian Philosopher, yt God made al things of materia prima.

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1634.  M. Sandys, Essays, 210 (T.). The *Aristotelians were of opinion, that superfluity of riches might cause a tumult in a commonwealth.

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1724.  Watts, Logic, I. vi. § 9. *Aristotelian fooleries and scholastic subtilties.

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1870.  Lowell, Among My Books, I. (1873), 171. We respect in Goethe the *Aristotelian poet.

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1727–51.  Chambers, Cycl., *Aristotelianism, the reigning system of many ages.

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1610.  Healey, Vives on St. Aug. City of God (1620), 417. Hee [Saint Thomas] is too *Aristotelique.

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1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., vii. (1859), I. 116. The *Aristotelic philosophy was … during the middle ages, the one exclusive philosophy in Europe.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 53. The whole *Aristotelical System of Philosophy.

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1845.  J. H. Newman, Ess. Developm., 451. The theology of St. Thomas … is built on that very *Aristotelism which the early Fathers denounce as the source of all misbelief.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., IV. xlvi. 370. That study is not properly Philosophy, but *Aristotelity.

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1842.  Sir W. Hamilton, in Reid’s Wks., II. 765/2. The *Aristotelizing commentary of Proclus.

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