[Ads-l] Antedating of "Cyclical"

[Shapiro, Fred]

cyclical (OED 1817)

1706 Richard Brocklesby _An Explication of the Gospel-Theism and the Divinity of the Christian Religion_ 74 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  The Platonists Metaphysical Theology is not meer _Cyclical Metaphysicks_.


Fred Shapiro

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