قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.

A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.

Alt. of Therapeutical

One of the Therapeutae.

Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative.

That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.

One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.

Therapeutics.

In or at that place.

In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech.

To or into that place; thither.

Concerning that.

Alt. of Thereabouts

Near that place.

Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.

Concerning that; about that.

After that; afterward.

According to that; accordingly.

Of that sort.

In opposition; against one's course.