a. [f. prec. + -IC.]
1. Of or befitting an atheist; pertaining to or involving atheism.
1634. Habington, Castara (1870), 78. Who will with silent piety confute Atheisticke Sophistry.
1871. R. H. Hutton, Ess., I. 45. A vague, general dread that Science … is atheistic in its tendency.
2. Of the nature of an atheist; denying the existence of a God; godless, impious.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 179. A wide gate for atheistic blasphemous wits to impute to him the greatest sins.
a. 1711. Ken, Poet. Wks. (1721), II. 136. The Atheistick Fools who God deny.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc., II. xiv. 368. The moral doctrine taught by this ‘atheistic’ leader.
