philosophistic

Definition

Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.

Etymology

From philo- + sophistic.

Example Sentences

• "That many philosophistic and superstitious conceits have been mixed with it, in process of time, proves nothing against the general fact as stated."
• "A philosophy of the French Revolution should take care to avoid such philosphistic procedures."
• "This premodern pitilessness Pettigrew deprecated, but he was less enthusiastic about aspects of modernity other than compassion, like “atheism, deism, and philosophistic religion, so prevalent in the soi-disant enlightened countries."