philosophe

[ fil-uh-sof, fil-uh-zof; French fee-law-zawf ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural phil·o·sophes [fil, -, uh, -sofs, fil-, uh, -, zofs, fee-law-, zawf].

any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
a philosophaster.

Borrowed into English from French around 1770–80

The first work was dedicated to Voltaire, and was received by the old philosophe with much favour.

The book pretended to be an elaboration of Dumarsais' essay on the Philosophe published in the Nouvelles liberts de penser, 1750.

Or un crivain, un pote, un philosophe, un homme des rgions intellectuelles n'a qu'une patrie: sa langue.

In true Martinism, the significance of the term Philosophe inconnu was of another order.

Such are the memorable quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, and the philosophe idea of perfectibility and human progress.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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