Metaphysical

“I was very much interested by some papers of yours, Dr. Hesselius, upon what you term Metaphysical Medicine — I read them in German, ten or twelve years ago — have they been translated?”

Green Tea 2003

"I was very much interested by some papers of yours, Dr. Hesselius, upon what you term Metaphysical Medicine -- I read them in German, ten or twelve years ago -- have they been translated?"

Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

To strain after conceits, to strive for quaintness of thought and expression, was the striking characteristic of all the poets of the generation, to whom Dr. Johnson gave the title Metaphysical, and who are now known as the Marinists.

Palamon and Arcite John Dryden 1665

Metaphysical is an apt description of a materialist interpretive framework.

Conceptualizing Design 2009

Mourgues, in a book in English, Metaphysical, Baroque and Précieux Poetry (Oxford, 1953) uses it as a term of disapproval limited to Crashaw.

BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

PN is often also referred to as Metaphysical Naturalism.

ID = Postmodern Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005

This peculiar taste for twisting and playing upon words, instead of applying them to their natural and proper use, was combined with the similar extravagance of those whom Dr. Johnson has entitled Metaphysical Poets.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

Comte terms Metaphysical, accounts for phaenomena by ascribing them, not to volitions either sublunary or celestial, but to realized abstractions.

Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839

This peculiar taste for twisting and playing upon words, instead of applying them to their natural and proper use, was combined with the similar extravagance of those whom Dr. Johnson has entitled Metaphysical

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801

He is the last important representative of the 'Metaphysical' style.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher