a. (sb.) [f. Lucrēti-us, the name of a Latin poet and Epicurean philosopher + -AN.] Pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling Lucretius or his philosophy.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, 113. Say, did you e’er reflect, Lucretian tribe?
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 652. The Lucretian comfort is none to me.
1900. Speaker, 1 Sept., 602. The Lucretian philosophy.
1902. Q. Rev., Oct., 500. (Giordano Bruno in England), Part of his Lucretian poem, ‘De Immenso,’ must have been written here.
b. quasi-sb. (The adj. used absol.) A follower of Lucretius, an adherent of his philosophy.
1881. S. Wainwright, Sci. Sophisms, i. (1883), 31. It is the ideal Lucretian himself who is the speaker.
