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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3 words match “DIANOETIC”

DIANOETIC a.
Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products. I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.
DIANOIALOGY n.
The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations. Sir W. Hamilton.
UNDERSTANDING n.
anding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans. Sir W. Hamilton.