Atheistical
pertaining to or characteristic of or ; containing, suggesting, or disseminating :
atheistic literature; atheistic people.
Historical Examples
What, then, became of the atheistical philosophy and agnostic materialism of the Buddhistic creed?
The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, December 1879 Various
Nevertheless, he is not atheistical, nor even wholly fatalistic.
A Poor Man’s House Stephen Sydney Reynolds
These atheistical fathers have a bigotry of their own; and they have learnt to talk against monks with the spirit of a monk.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) Edmund Burke
Is it not, in fact, the last resource of all atheistical societies?
A Daughter of Eve Honore de Balzac
He was in love, but the idol of his affections belonged to an atheistical family.
Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II Alexander Huth
Great indeed must have been their errors, to have been discovered by the atheistical Hollanders!
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI Robert Kerr
Nothing is rarer than atheistical princes, and nothing more common than very bad and very religious tyrants.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) Jean Meslier
Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the truth of Christianity because they hate the practice.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby
And now that the ministers had spoken, it was almost irreligious and atheistical for others to express any doubt.
Dulcibel Henry Peterson
The Jangams are sober, devout and humble; the Tantricas are debauched, atheistical and proud.
Phallic Miscellanies Hargrave Jennings
adj.
1630s, from atheist + -ic. Atheistical attested from c.1600.
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a man of royal blood; a prince. Historical Examples “Whom thou thinkest a nithing, O friend,” answered the atheling. Wulnoth the Wanderer Herbert Escott-Inman Nor was this all: in London, there had already formed a cabal in favour of the atheling. Harold, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton His espousal of the cause of Edgar the atheling led […]