comte
noun
Example Sentences
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One day I appear to him to be Catholic, the next Comtist, the next Orthodox Greek, the next a convert to the Anglican communion.
From The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall
The Comtist replies that the task is philosophic; and is not to be judged by the minute accuracies of science.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
The Comtist replies that the task is philosophic, and is not to be judged by the minute accuracies of science.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 10: Auguste Comte by John Morley
The mother of Tennyson had not been an Agnostic or a Comtist; his father had not been a staunch true-blue anti- Englander.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
He contemptuously calls the Comtist championship of the working man, 'the championship of the trencher.'
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
