comte

¹ American  

[kawnt] / kɔ̃t /

noun

French.

plural

comtes

1. count.

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Comte ² American  

[kawnt, kawnt] / kɔ̃t, kɔ̃t /

noun

1. (Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) 1798–1857, French founder of the philosophical system of positivism.

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Comte British  

/ kɔ̃t, ˈkɔːnˌtɪzəm /

noun

1. ( Isidore ) Auguste ( Marie François ) (oɡyst). 1798–1857, French mathematician and philosopher; the founder of positivism

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Other Word Forms

• Comtism noun
• Comtist adjective

Example Sentences

Joanna Stalnaker, a professor of French at Columbia University, adopts this line as the title of her fascinating book about 18th-century philosophers facing death, examining how Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume, the Comte de Buffon, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and more—wrote philosophically as they approached their deathbeds.

From The Wall Street Journal

The book traces how the concept of the West was spread by nineteenth-century French thinkers such as August Comte, who espoused a society based on reason and saw Europe in contrast to the rising autocracy to the East, Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bougie Gougies are exactly that: French-style frozen cheese puffs, made with gruyère and comté, that bake to golden perfection in just 20 minutes straight from the freezer.

From Salon

Comte’s Religion of Humanity had a priesthood of experts and a science-worshipping liturgy.

From The Wall Street Journal

The march of science required a band, so a technocratic Catholic liberal, Auguste Comte, coined “sociology.”

From The Wall Street Journal