theosophie

See also: théosophie

English

Noun

theosophie (usually uncountable, plural theosophies)

1. Archaic spelling of theosophy.
   • 1650, Eugenius Philalethes (pseud. of Thomas Vaughan), “The author to the reader”, in Anthroposophia theomagica : or A discourse of the nature of man and his state after death, London: Printed by T. W. for H. Blunden, →OCLC, page B4:

     It is not the primitive trueth^[sic] of creation, not the ancient, reall^[sic] theoſophie of the Hebrews and Egyptians, but a certain preternaturall^[sic] upſtart, a vomit of Ariſtotle, which his followers with ſo much diligence lick up, and ſwallow.