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Deistical   Listen
adjective
Deistical, Deistic  adj.  Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. "The deistical or antichristian scheme."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Deistical" Quotes from Famous Books



... read much earlier. I had used it as a school book, translating it both out of Latin into English, and out of English back into Latin, imprinting it thereby almost word for word upon my memory. I had also read the work of his commentator on the causes of incredulity. Leland on the deistical writers, and Paley's Evidences, and others, I read after. But in this great old library I met with numbers of interesting and important works that I have never met with since. And here, in the dimly lighted antiquated rooms, I used to fill my mind with a world of facts, ...
— Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life Story • Joseph Barker

... submit to its laws. In like manner it is the will of God that civil government should exist. Men are bound by his authority to have civil rulers for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well. This is the scriptural doctrine, as opposed to the deistical theory of a social compact as the ultimate ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various



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