English Explanatory Dictionary

declinarian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A supporter of Charles Babbage's Reflections on the Decline of Science and some of its Causes (1830), a paper criticizing the failure of government to support scientific research.

Word forms

declinarian declinarians

Etymology

From decline + -arian.

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