a. [f. THEOSOPH(Y + -IC. Cf. F. théosophique (Diderot).] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of theosophy; versed in theosophy. (Chiefly in reference to the school of Böhme; more recently = THEOSOPHICAL b.)
1649. Ellistone, trans. Behmen’s Epist., vii. § 24. He is a young companion of the Theosophic school.
1691. E. Taylor (title), Jacob Boehmen’s Theosophick Philosophy Unfolded.
1710. R. Ward, Life H. More, 128. Such most Noble Truths, and Theosophick Mysteries are deliver’d in it.
1828. Carlyle, Misc., Werner (1872), I. 79. His French scepticism had got overlaid with wondrous theosophic garniture.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics, I. v. (1860), I. 31. The mysticism I term theosophic aspires to know and believes itself in possession of a certain supernatural divine faculty for that purpose.
1902. Encycl. Brit., XXVII. 60/2. Christian Science, a system of theosophic and therapeutic doctrine,… was originated … about 1866 by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.
