What is "baconian"

Usage examples of "baconian".

Langdon had once worked on a series of Baconian manuscripts that contained epigraphical ciphers in which certain lines of code were clues as to how to decipher the other lines.

In that he shows, with great logical skill, as well as with some humour, how the man who, on rising in the morning finds the parlourwindow open, the spoons and teapot gone, the mark of a dirty hand on the window-sill, and that of a hob-nailed boot outside, and comes to the conclusion that someone has broken open the window, and stolen the plate, arrives at that hypothesis--for it is nothing more--by a long and complex train of inductions and deductions of just the same kind as those which, according to the Baconian philosophy, are to be used for investigating the deepest secrets of Nature.

This theory, as foolish and as unsupported as the Baconian theory of Shakespeare, has been carelessly accepted, or at all events accepted as possible, by many good scholars who have never taken the trouble to look into the matter for themselves.

Either he had a wife already and was vague about his ability to get rid of her, or he was drunk when he was brought to his proposal and repudiated it or forgot it the next day, or he was a bankrupt, or he was old and decrepit, or he was young and plainly idiotic, or he had diabetes or a bad heart, or his relatives were impossible, or he believed in spiritualism, or democracy, or the Baconian theory, or some other such nonsense.

We all have to do a good deal of assuming, but I am fairly certain that in every case I can call to mind the Baconian assumers have come out ahead of the Shakespearites.

Two of these cults are known as the Shakespearites and the Baconians, and I am the other one--the Brontosaurian.

So they are bent on discrediting the Jews, and through the Jews—this they learned from the Jesuits—they cause trouble for their adversaries abroad, both the neo-Templars and the Baconians.

The idea of the Baconians is so fascinating that it produces results contrary to their expectations.

But there had to be something else, another venture the Baconians had set in motion, whose results, whose stages were before everyone’s eyes, though no one had noticed them.

The Manifesto suggests an alternative both to the Baconians and to the neo-Templars.

Which is what happened when Jesuits and Baconians, Paulicians and neo-Templars each complained of the other’s plan.

Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much more reasonable and rational and persuasive results out of them than is the case with the Shakespearites.

The Baconians claim that the Stratford Shakespeare was not qualified to write the Works, and that Francis Bacon was.

As I threw the bolt I could hear the Baconian knocking at the next door to ours.