Crossword-Solution: THEORETIC 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Theoretic a. Alt. of Theoretical

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Concerned with hypotheses 1 answer
Unconcerned with practical application 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with THEORETIC (5)

This emotion was not at all theoretic, it was not even in a high degree sentimental; he had thought very little about the “position” of women, and he was not familiar either sympathetically or otherwise, with the image of a President in petticoats.
The American Henry James 1994
But I shall always think that, properly, you should have been a great mind--a great character.” “Ah, that’s very theoretic,” Lord Lambeth declared.
An International Episode Henry James 2008
PRO HONORIA "_But that sense of negation, of theoretic insecurity, which was in the air, conspiring with what was of like tendency in himself, made of Lord UFFORD a central type of disillusion.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008
The brave intention of frequency, so great with him from the moment of his finding himself unjustly suspected at Woollett, had remained rather theoretic, and one of the things he could muse about under his poplars was the source of the special shyness that had still made him careful.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1996
But when they exist, as they exist in England to-day, in hundreds of thousands, in town and country, think what a complication they introduce into your theoretic free system of government.
Ginx's Baby Edward Jenkins 1996

Quotes with THEORETIC (3)

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man to turn into a rhinoceros is abnormal beyond question. DUDARD: Well, of course, that's a matter of opinion ... BERENGER: It is beyond question, absolutely beyond question! DUDARD: You seem very sure of yourself. Who can say where the normal stops and the abnormal begins? Can you personally define these conceptions of normality and abnormality? Nobody…
Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson
To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and t…
William A. Dembski
I have no use for a theoretic freedom. Let me have something finite, definite — matter that can lend itself to my operation only insofar as it is commensurate with my possibilities. And such matter presents itself to me together with limitations. I must in turn impose mine upon it. So here we are, whether we like it or not, in the realm of necessity. And yet which of us has ever heard talk of art as other than a realm of freedom? This sort of heresy is uniformly widespread be…
Igor Stravinsky Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
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