Baconian

American  

[bey-koh-nee-uhn] / beɪˈkoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the philosopher Francis Bacon or his doctrines.

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noun

1. an adherent of the Baconian philosophy.

Baconian British  

/ beɪˈkəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Francis Bacon, the philosopher, or to his inductive method of reasoning

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noun

1. a follower of Bacon's philosophy

2. one who believes that plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Bacon

Other Word Forms

• Baconianism
  noun
• Baconism
  noun
• anti-Baconian
  adjective
• pre-Baconian
  adjective
• pro-Baconian
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Baconian

First recorded in 1805–15; Bacon + -ian

Example Sentences

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Baconian

It’s finished in a louring Baconian grey, the colour of a hospital gurney.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016

So too had Baconian natural philosophy and the broad effect of skepticism toward the claims of scholastics.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015

Among the contenders for the method, the Baconian method involved cataloguing many experiences of phenomena, then figuring out how to classify them.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2013

His Baconian studies were his greatest efforts in the field of daffy scholarship, but Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was his most sensational book.

From Time Magazine Archive

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