Word Meanings - PHILOSOPHASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pretender to philosophy. Dr. H. More.

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• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PHILOSOPHY
  1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. Note: When applied to any particular department of knowledge,
• PRETENDERSHIP
  The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.
• PHYSICO-PHILOSOPHY
  The philosophy of nature.