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e formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist. Cudworth.

Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.

Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. The downright impossibilities charged upon it. South. Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. Prescott. -- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.

n, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

e. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

ony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

alls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

ed with a false opinion of his own value or importance. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

Same as Hylotheism.

One who believes in hylotheism.

Of or pertaining to monotheism.

s and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance. Chapman. This is not atheism, But court observance. Beau. & Fl.

Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness. They chose atheism as an opiate. Bentley.

Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.

One who holds to pantheism.

Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism. -- Pan`the*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation. -- Pol`y*the*is"tic*al*ly, adv.

To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate, the doctrine of polytheism. Milman.

The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God. [Written also Spinosism.]