necessarian, n. and a.
(nɛsɪˈsɛərɪən)
[f. necessar-y + -ian; cf. F. nécessarien n.]
A believer in necessity; a necessitarian.
| 1777 Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 111, I cannot, as a necessarian, hate any man. 1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 464 The free-willers agree with the necessarians in the opinion, that the mind perceives the difference of things. 1822 Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. iv. (1869) 87 The precise knowledge of antecedents and consequents makes men practical as well as philosophical Necessarians. 1872 Littledale in Contemp. Rev. XX. 445 Here is the dilemma for Necessarians who plead God's changelessness. |
b. attrib. or as adj.
| 1795 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XVIII. 127 Being fostered by the necessarian philosophy, it is likely to become a prevailing passion. 1831 R. Blakey Free-will Pref. 10 One of those epitomes of the necessarian hypothesis. 1878 Morley Diderot II. 199 The establishment in men's minds of a Necessarian theory. |