a. and sb. [f. name of Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (died 1753), a celebrated philosopher who denied the objective or independent existence of the material world.]
A. adj. Of or originating with Berkeley. B. sb. A follower or disciple of Berkeley. Hence Berkeleianism, Berkeleyism, the philosophical opinions held by Berkeley and his followers.
1860. Mansel, Prolegom. Log., v. 145. Taking the Berkleian theory in its whole extent.
1878. J. Fiske, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 32. Materialists, as a rule, have not mastered the Berkeleian psychology.
1804. Edin. Rev., IX. 158. The reasoning of the Berkeleians.
1830. Mackintosh, Progr. Eth. Philos., § 6 (1862), 269. His adoption of Berkeleianism is a proof of an unprejudiced and acute mind.
1864. J. H. Newman, Apol., 78. The connexion of this philosophy of religion with what is sometimes called ‘Berkeleyism’ has been mentioned.
1881. Athenæum, 30 July, 137/1. Whether the mind will not at last be driven into actual Berkeleyism.
