Pythagoreanism

American  

[pi-thag-uh-ree-uh-niz-uhm] / pɪˌθæg əˈri əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.

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Pythagoreanism British  

/ paɪˌθæɡəˈriːəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. the teachings of Pythagoras and his followers, esp that the universe is essentially a manifestation of mathematical relationships

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Etymology

Origin of Pythagoreanism

First recorded in 1720–30; Pythagorean + -ism

Example Sentences

With the ignorant and vulgar it might find a baser expression in superstition pure and simple,—in the finding of portents, in astrology, in Dionysiac orgies; but with these Pythagoreanism must not be reckoned.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

The difference was that Pythagoreanism, the nexus, was only six hundrd years away, and the memory of it fairly fresh.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

Pythagoreanism, not extinct in the first century B.C.,

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Pythagoreanism, although its origin is veiled in mystery, was always full of the mysticism of the East.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Strange attempt to propagate Pythagoreanism; this also dealt with by the government.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde