Lucretius
noun
Titus Lucretius Carus, 97?–54 b.c., Roman poet and philosopher.
Lucretian
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a word derived from
Lucretius.
Example Sentences
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It is this more easygoing Lucretian, Baconian, Charltonian approach which eventually became that of the Royal Society and of eighteenth-century science, in contradistinction to the far bolder one of Montaigne and Descartes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
How did he know that it involved Lucretian atomism?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
That Lucretian Exordium he must have written in one of his happiest veins—under the sting of the poetical œstrum.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
These conflicts pain Lucretian sitters on the shore; and one wonders—one wonders—wonders and whimpers.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
