a. [f. as prec. + -AL: See -ICAL.] = prec.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. ii. III. iii. Argt., That th’ earth doth move, proofs Physicall Unto us do descrie; Adde reasons Theosophicall, Als’ adde Astronomie.
1697. State Philadelph. Soc., 13. The Title Page of the Theosophical Transactions.
1830. Pusey, Hist. Enq., II. 351. To the theosophical fanatics, or a D. Hoffman, such a man, as he was, could not possibly assent.
1866. G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xii. He had … often some theosophical theory to bring forward.
1886. Manch. Exam., 17 Feb., 3/3. Boehme is anything but a dealer in mere theosophical enigmas.
b. Of or belonging to THEOSOPHY, in sense 2.
Theosophical Society, an association founded at New York, 1875, by Col. H. S. Olcott, Madame Blavatsky, and W. Q. Judge, its professed objects being: 1. to form the nucleus of a universal brotherhood; 2. to promote the study of Aryan and other Eastern literature, religions, and sciences; 3. to investigate the unfamiliar laws of nature and the faculties latent in man.
1881. Sinnett, Occult World, 35. Assisted by some other persons whose interest in the subject was kindled by occasional manifestations of her extraordinary powers, and notably by Colonel Olcott, its life-devoted President, she [Madame Blavatsky] founded the Theosophical Society.
1885. Olcott, Theosophy, Pref. 10. The Theosophical spirit of conceding to the people of all creeds the right of enjoying their religious convictions unmolested.
