a. and sb. [f. Anaxagoras, prop. name + -EAN.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher who taught the eternity of matter, but the agency of a supreme intelligence in combining it into bodies. B. sb. A follower of Anaxagoras.
1586. T. Bright, A Treatise of Melancholie, ii. 6. After an Anaxagorian manner.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 35. The Anaxagorean Hypothesis. Ibid., 199. All of them except the Anaxagoreans.
1845. Lewes, Hist. Philos., I. 137. Empedocles has something of the Pythagorean, Eleatic, Heraclitic, and Anaxagorean systems in his system.
