a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to the Thomists or their doctrines.
1881. Nature, XXIII. 235. On the recent restoration of the scholastic and tomistic philosophy.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 358. [Cajetan] was generally considered the real head of the Thomistic school.
1889. E. H. Dering (title), On Universals: an Exposition of Thomistic Doctrine. By Father Matteo Liberatore, S.J.
So Thomistical a. = prec.; Thomisticate v. (nonce-wd.) intr. to argue or discourse in the manner of the Thomists; to ‘split hairs,’ use over-refined arguments.
1533. Tindale, Supper of Lord, C v b. Howe farre lo, M. More is thys your straunge *thomystical sense from the flate letter?
1642. J. Eaton, Honey-c. Free Justif., 120. The Thomisticall distinctions of the Schoolemen.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 171. The rigorous Calvinistical and Thomistical Opinion of Predestination.
1730. Lewis, Life of Fisher (1855), I. 194. In defence of the mass’s being a sacrifice, the king thus *Thomisticates.
