a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of the nature of or pertaining to a theosophist or theosophy (in sense 1).
1849. Lady Wilde, trans. Meinhold’s Sidonia Sorc., IIII. xiii. II. 184, note. The theosophistic, cabalistic Dr. Joel.
1856. C. J. Ellicott, in Cambr. Ess., 169. The main facts of Christianity … interwoven with the theosophistic speculations, the mystical doctrines … that were so dear to the hybrid Christian of Alexandria. Ibid. (1857), Comm. Col., Introd. (1861), 111. To warn the Colossians against a system of false teaching, partly Oriental and Theosophistic in its character, and partly Judaical and ceremonial.
1897. Daily News, 5 Feb., 6/7. The theurgic and theosophistic obscurities of Kabbalistic writings.
b. Of or pertaining to THEOSOPHY (in sense 2).
1886. Athenæum, 9 Jan., 68/3. Mr. Cumberland … in India is studying theosophistic philosophy on the spot.
So Theosophistical a., in same sense (but with disparaging implication).
1814. Shelley, Refut. Deism, Pref., iii.–iv. Prose Wks. 1888, I. 292. The Author endeavours to shew how much the cause of natural and revealed Religion has suffered from the mode of defence adopted by Theosophistical Christians.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 16 Nov., 4/2. The disingenuousness of this very Theosophistical letter.
