a. and sb. [f. Locke, the English philosopher (1632–1704) + -IAN.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to Locke or his followers.
1856. Manchester Weekly Examiner & Times,, 29 March, Suppl. 3/4. The principle on which this book is constructed is a modification of the Lockian, and a very decided improvement upon it.
1858. W. R. Pirie, Inq. Hum. Mind, II. ii. 80. The most eminent of the professed Lockian School.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. xiii. 511. Kant was the founder of a new philosophy, which was fatal to the Leibnitzian, as well as to the Lockian, Individualism.
B. sb. = LOCKIST. In recent Dicts.
Hence Lockianism, the philosophical doctrines of Locke or his followers.
1862. Macm. Mag., July, 201. It is here that Berkeley passes from Lockianism to Platonism.
1886. Seth, in Encycl. Brit., XXI. 383/1. The principles of Lockianism.
