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phil⋅o⋅sophe

  [fil-uh-sof, fil-uh-zof; Fr. fee-law-zawf]
–noun, plural -sophes  [-sofs, -zofs; Fr. -zawf] .
1. any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
2. a philosophaster.
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Origin:
1770–80; < F
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phi·lo·sophe   (fĭl'ə-sŏf', fē'lô-zôf')   
n.  Any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.

[French, from Old French, philosopher; see philosopher.]
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philosophe 
"Enlightenment rationalist and skeptic," esp. in ref. to any of the Fr. Encyclopædists, often disparaging (when used by believers), 1774, from Fr. philosophe, lit. "philosopher" (see philosopher). Usually italicized in Eng., but nativized by Peter Gay ("The Enlightenment," 1966) and others. Also philosophist (1798).
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