a. and sb. [f. Lord Bacon, philosopher of the 17th c. + -IAN.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to the experimental and inductive system of natural philosophy taught by him. B. sb. An adherent of that system. Baconianism, the Baconian philosophy. Baconic a., Baconist = BACONIAN a. and sb.

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1812.  Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 32. In the spirit of the Baconian School, multiplying instances and cautiously making inductions.

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1869.  Daily News, 26 Jan., 4/5. The rigid economists … are the scholastics and not the Baconians of their science.

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a. 1866.  J. Grote, Exam. Util. Philos., xvii. (1870), 264. The distinction between intuitiveness and inductiveness, pre-Baconianism, and Baconianism.

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1834.  Edin. Rev., LIX. 32. A sort of Baconic nomenclature.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., II. xxi. 7. The party of Baconists had obtained great influence.

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