Baconian theory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Baconian theory
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Once, I was told, Professor Kittredge advised the members of his English class at Radcliffe not to read any books on the Baconian theory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Certainly, a new thing is not necessarily wrong; but neither is a new thing necessarily right; and we are heartless enough to pronounce the "Baconian theory" rather weak than otherwise for a hero.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
The Baconian theory has found its widest acceptance in America.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
They took her to hear Ignatius Donnelly with his Baconian theory; Ingersoll hammering at Moses, and Jenness-Miller with her Reformed Clothes for Women.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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