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Revised 2018

Zetetical Societynoun

  1. 1881–
    (The name of) a free-thinking society founded in London in 1878 as a forum for debate of social, political, and scientific matters.
    1. 1881
      Dr. C. R. Drysdale lectured on this subject at the Zetetical Society..at the Westminster Democratic Club.
      Malthusian January 187/1
    2. 1921
      Not until..1879, did I for the first time rise to my feet in a little debating club called the Zetetical Society.
      G. B. Shaw, Immaturity (1930) p. xl
    3. 2012
      The brainchild of Sir Ebenezer Howard, whom Shaw had befriended in 1879 at a Zetetical Society debate, the Garden City concept was first introduced in a short book.
      Shaw vol. 32 134

Originally published as part of the entry for zetetical, adj. & n.

zetetical, adj. & n. was revised in June 2018.