Also 7–9 Spinosist. [f. as prec. + -IST. So F. spinosiste.] One who accepts or advocates the philosophical doctrines of Spinoza.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., Spinosism, the Doctrine of Spinosa;… the Retainers whereto, are called Spinosists.
1740. Warburton, Vind. Pope’s Ess. Man, 24. The Spinozists … to hide the Impiety … are used to express the Omnipresence of God in Terms that any religious Theist might employ.
1814. W. Wilson, Hist. Dissent. Ch., IV. 78. He was generally esteemed to be a Spinozist.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., 309. The conversation [with Jacobi] shows that Lessing ended a confirmed Spinozist.
attrib. 1878. Morley, Diderot, I. 224. The true line of cleavage that would have enabled him … to shatter the Spinosist system.
So Spinozite. rare–1.
1690. in Maidment, Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868), 186. The Spinosit to his own interest true, Swears if a Trinitie, they have theirs too.
