a. (sb.) [ad. F. théologique (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. theologicus, a. Gr. θεολογικός, f. θεολογία THEOLOGY.]

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  1.  Of or belonging to theology; = next, 2.

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1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 78. Aristoteles … lerned of plato … Ethikes and the iiij sciences theologikes.

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1669.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. Introd. 4. Plato … derived the choisest of his contemplations, both Physiologic, and Theologic … from the Jewish Church.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. 323. It was customary with the Egyptian Priests, to entitle their own Philosophick and Theologick Books, to Hermes.

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1780.  H. Walpole, Lett. to Cole, 4 July. I hate theologic or political controversy.

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a. 1876.  M. Collins, Th. in Garden (1880), II. 237. These young theologic adepts fancy they know everything.

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  † 2.  = THEOLOGICAL a. 1. Obs. rare.

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1605.  Drayton, Man in Moone, 488. Those Hierarchies … Whose Orders … Make up that holy Theologike nine: Thrones, Cherubin, and Seraphin [etc.].

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1637.  Heywood, London’s Mirr., Wks. 1874, IV. 314. The Theologicke vertues, the three Graces, And Charities have here their severall places.

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  B.  absol. as sb. (pl.) Theological matters. rare.

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1728.  Young, Love Fame, V. 374. These … who thus excell In Theologicks.

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