Irrefragable

The Irrefragable Doctor, with his chains of induction, his corollaries, dilemmas and other cunning logical diagrams and apparatus, will cast you a beautiful horoscope, and speak reasonable things; nevertheless your stolen jewel, which you wanted him to find you, is not forthcoming.

Paras. 1-19 1909

Afterwards a thousand schoolmen arose, such as the Irrefragable Doctor, the Subtile Doctor, the Angelic Doctor, the Seraphic Doctor, and the Cherubic Doctor, who were all sure that they had a very clear and distinct idea of the soul, and yet wrote in such a manner, that one would conclude they were resolved no one should understand a word in their writings.

Letter XIII-On Mr. Locke Voltaire 1909

Subtle and Invincible, Irrefragable and Angelic, have left nothing which even on the widest interpretation of pure literature can be included within it, or even any names that figure in any but the least select of literary histories.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

(Universal, Irrefragable, or Seraphic Doctors), and after a certain date by women too (Angelical Sisters), who had no knowledge of the world, of society, of human nature, or of real philosophy.

The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873

England possessed many names which, in this field, stood higher than any others -- among them Alexander de Hales, called "the Irrefragable Doctor," and Johannes Duns Scotus, one of the most acute of thinkers.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

The schools of the middle ages gave birth to the Irrefragable and the Seraphic doctors, the subtlety of whose distinctions, and the perseverance of whose investigations, are among the most wonderful monuments of the intellectual power of man.

Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

Kant and Aristotle, Nominalists and Realists, Doctors Seraphic or Irrefragable, what cares he?

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

All are at his feet -- the Irrefragable has been confuted by his arrows, the

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Seraphic and Irrefragable, "with all their trumpery!"

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

The Irrefragable Doctor was Alexander Hales, a native of Gloucestershire, who died in 1245.

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803