a. (UN-1 7.)
1649. Milton, Eikon., vi. 57. Straining her wise dictates to un-philosophicall purposes.
1656. Cowley, Davideis, I. Note x. One of the most unphilosophical opinions in all Aristotle.
1696. J. Edwards, Exist. & Provid. God, I. 31. This is unphilosophical, and therefore we may justly look upon the argument drawn from it as so too.
1771. Encycl. Brit., I. 652/1. The very supposition … must be unphilosophical, whimsical, and absurd.
1847. Helps, Friends in C., I. i. 5. A man more fierce and unphilosophical in the pursuit of it I never saw.
1862. Goulburn, Educ. World, 30. Surely this statement is both unphilosophical and unscriptural.
absol. 1877. Laing, Bacon’s Philos. Exam., 15. The minds of the unphilosophical.
Hence Unphilosophicalness.
1687. Norris, Coll. Misc. (1699), 169. The unphilosophicalness of this their Hypothesis.
