Comtian
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Comtian
Example Sentences
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Today, Brazil's military organization is run by a bright, intellectual class of officers who are strongly influenced by the tenets of Comtian and Spencerian Positivism.*
From Time Magazine Archive
There could be no better illustration, as Prof. Geddes has pointed out, of the Comtian thesis that science is a "social phenomenon."
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
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