WOLFIAN
\wˈʊlfi͡ən], \wˈʊlfiən], \w_ˈʊ_l_f_iə_n]\
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Pertaining to or promulgated by Frederick A. Wolf, the great German philologist.
By Daniel Lyons
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w[=oo]l'fi-an, adj. pertaining to the philosophy of Johann Christian von Wolf (1679-1754). He systematised and popularised the philosophy of Leibnitz, and gave a strong impulse to that development of natural theology and rationalism which soon almost drove out revelation by rendering it unnecessary--also WOLFF'IAN.--n. WOLF'IANISM.
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w[=oo]l'fi-an, adj. pertaining to, or associated with, the name of Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824), the most gifted classical scholar and first critic of his age--applied esp. to his theory that the Odyssey and Iliad are composed of numerous ballads by different minstrels, strung together in a kind of unity by subsequent editors.
By Thomas Davidson