corpuscularian
English edit
Etymology edit
From corpuscular + -ian.
Adjective edit
corpuscularian (comparative more corpuscularian, superlative most corpuscularian)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to or consisting of corpuscules; corpuscular.
- (now historical) Related to the corpuscular theory; pertaining to corpuscules or atoms; atomic.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 239:
- Boerhaave promoted mechanistic disease explanation within a corpuscularian matter theory, seeing health in terms of hydrostatic equilibrium, a balance of internal fluid pressures.
Noun edit
corpuscularian (plural corpuscularians)
- (dated) An adherent of the corpuscular theory of chemistry.