- a variation of philosophical.
philosophic
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Mr. Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, is the author of “Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Philosophic General Hsiung, who at 50 has the bland face of a schoolboy, departed with his usual smile, said only that he and Franklin Roosevelt had discussed the "Pacific situation."
From Time Magazine Archive
Philosophic, I take it as a tribute to my mild feats at biscuit-shooting, voice no anger.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was also a learned man, but still with a vein of romance about him, as may be seen in his most elaborate work—"The Essay toward a Philosophic or Universal Language."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
