Verulamian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Verulamian
1665–75; Verulam + -ian
Example Sentences
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In the revelations of the Verulamian philosophy, it was a favourite axiom with its founder, that we subdue Nature by yielding to her.
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If we imagine that this awful fabric of the Aristotelian or scholastic philosophy was first shaken by the Verulamian, we should be conferring on a single individual a sudden influence which was far more progressive.
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Agrippa and Paracelsus, Jordano Bruno, Cardan and Campanella, played their “fantastic tricks,” till the patient genius of the new philosophy arose simultaneously in the Italian Galileo and the founder of the Verulamian method.
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For the discipline through which the nation had passed had brought the public mind to a temper well fitted for the reception of the Verulamian doctrine.
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