Meanings
comparative more mathematic · superlative most mathematic · alternative mathematick
- archaicMathematical.
Round rolls the stroke with mathematic care, All centre-bound, exactly circular: No sportive way it takes, at large and free, No gambol plays of freakful liberty […]
c. 1798, Joseph Fawcett, On Viſiting the Gardens at Verſailles1 more example
This is the sort of struggle which proves a man's metal, and declares it sterling or counterfeit. No spuriosity, no charlatanry can stand this fiery alembic of hard-wrought and exquisite calculation, in which one mathematic point or unit misplaced destroys the whole chain of reasoning, and proves the candidate a blunderer.
1874 June 1, Francis Barham, “On Swedenborg’s Theology. An Unpublished Fragment.”, in The Intellectual Repository and New Jerusalem Magazine (Enlarged Series; XXI), volume XLIX (Entire Work), number 246, London: Published by the General Conference of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation: And sold by James Speirs, 36 Bloomsbury Street, →OCLC, page 263
Origin
- Ancient Greekμᾰθημᾰτῐκός
- Latinmathēmaticus
- Old Frenchmathematique
- Middle Englishmathematik
- Englishmathematic
From Middle English mathematik, from Old French mathematique or directly from Latin mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μᾰθημᾰτῐκός (măthēmătĭkós), from μάθημα (máthēma, “learning; mathematics”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjective suffix).
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