Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
theistic .
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- adjective of or relating to
theism
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- adjective of or relating to theism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then he recited in English an Arya – Somaj prayer of a theistical nature, and stuffed his mouth with pan and betel.
Kim 2003
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"The republic of the rights of man is, properly speaking, neither theistical nor atheistical -- it is nihilistical."
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Indeed, it does not seem well settled whether the pure Jain doctrine was atheistical or theistical.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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"The republic of the rights of man is, properly speaking, neither theistical nor atheistical -- it is nihilistical."
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Then he recited in English an Arya-Somaj prayer of a theistical nature, and stuffed his mouth with pan and betel.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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“System of Ethics,” 1850, upon a decidedly theistical stand-point, and strongly emphasizes the idea of personality, which in Hegel falls into so dubious a back-ground.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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It differs from the common theistical doctrine only in this, that it would confine this being to the world; but for this, there could be assigned no valid reason.
Outlines of Moral Science. 1772-1851 1854
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The theistical sect seems to prevail in Nepaul, and the _atheistical to subsist in perfection in
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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He declares that the church is willing to admit all the discoveries of science, reconciling them to some increasingly vague theistical plan-that is, to use plainer language, altering religion to suit science, and making of God a plastic character to be remodelled whenever obvious truth disproves one of His original legendary attributes.
Planet Atheism Daniel Florien 2010
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Now this is a perfectly valid criticism on all such previous non-theistical arguments as were drawn from an "indication of the process by which the order has been realised;" for in all these previous arguments there was an absence of any physical explanation of the _ultimate_ cause of the process contemplated, and so long as this ultimate cause remained obscure, although the evidence of design might by these arguments have been excluded from particular processes, the evidence of design could not be similarly excluded from the ultimate cause of these processes.
A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871
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