a. rare. [f. L. Verulami-um St. Albans.] Performed by, emanating from, Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam.
1644. T. Diconson, Commend. Verse, in Bulwer, Chirologia.
| Since the Great Instauration of the Arts | |
| By Verulamian Socrates, whole parts | |
| Advanced Learning to a perfect state. |
1671. R. Bohun, Wind, 13. It likewise appear’d from another of the Verulamian Experiments, that Air of it self, when other vapours are wanting, will be sufficiently Agitated by Rarefaction.
a. 1770. Akenside, Ode to Caleb Hardinge, 46, in Poems (1772), 276.
| And grave assent with glad applause; | |
| To paint the story of the soul, | |
| And Plato’s visions to controul | |
| By Verulamian laws. |
1828. H. B. Bascom, in The Ariel (Natchez, MS), 13 Dec., 5/4. The Verulamian, or Baconian Philosophy dissipated the impervious mist of intellectual darkness, which had hovered over the nations for ages.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit., II. 20. In the revelations of the Verulamian philosophy, it was a favorite axiom with its founder, that we subdue Nature by yielding to her.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. I. 406. The discipline … had brought the public to a temper well fitted for the reception of the Verulamian doctrine.
1886. W. D. O’Connor, Hamlet’s Note-book, 13. To prove Bacon’s authorship of the plays, by showing in almost every department of knowledge and opinion the Verulamian mind in the Shakespearean writings.
