Definitions for Spencerian

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Spencerian Spen·ce·ri·an

Spelling: [spen-seer-ee-uh n]

IPA: /spɛnˈsɪər i ən/

Spencerian is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 753 anagrams from letters in Spencerian (aceeinnprs).

Definitions for Spencerian

noun

1. a follower of Herbert Spencer.

adjective

1. of Herbert Spencer or his philosophy.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.

Origin of Spencerian

First recorded in 1885-90; Spencer² + -ian

Examples for Spencerian

We had thus two epochs in our school, the Ciceronian and the Spencerian periods.

Spencerian evolution is an assertion of the all-sufficiency of natural law.

He was putting on his coat to go, but he looked down at the crumpled note, with its Spencerian handwriting.

As a philosopher, however, Nietzsche does not stand or fall by his objections to the Darwinian or Spencerian cosmogony.

He was a Spencerian like you till Kreis turned him to materialistic monism.

I have been told that a man who writes pure Spencerian can never do anything else.

Mr. Allen calls this the Spencerian view, and so it is in so far as that Mr. Spencer has adopted it.

It is to the pages of Huxley that we must turn to see this Spencerian fallacy refuted.

Any line of his writing was as neatly molded as Spencerian copy.

Mr. Fison is a Spencerian; so, for all that I know, may Mr. Siebert be.