a. and sb. Also Leibnitian, -izian. [f. the name of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) + -IAN.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Leibnitz or his philosophical doctrines or mathematical methods.
1765. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist. (1768), V. 23, note. The Leibnitian and Wolfian philosophy.
1778. Milner, in Phil. Trans., LXVIII. 362. The Leibnitzian doctrine.
a. 1818. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 73. The Leibnitzian distinction of the Eternal Reason, or nature of God … from the will or personal attributes of God.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. xiii. 504. The Leibnitzian Monadism.
1884. Merz, Leibniz, II. iv. 211. He [Schelling] therefore brought to the great body of Leibnizian and Kantian thought a novel element.
B. sb. A follower of Leibnitz.
1754. Dict. Arts & Sci., II. 1293. Some Leibnitians do not assume … that action or force is proportional to the pressure and space.
1882. W. Wallace, Kant, 101. Still the Leibnitians have almost all the experiences on their side.
Hence Leibnitzianism, the doctrines of Leibnitz or his followers.
1874. Morris, trans. Überweg’s Hist. Philos., II. 120.
