The Collaborative International Dictionary
Necessarian \Nec`es*sa"ri*an\, n. [Cf. F. n['e]cessarien. See Necessary.] An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a necessitarian.
Necessarian \Nec`es*sa"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
Wiktionary
alt. (context philosophy theology English) An adherent of necessarianism, an advocate of the doctrine of necessity. n. (context philosophy theology English) An adherent of necessarianism, an advocate of the doctrine of necessity.
Usage examples of "necessarian".
This group consisted almost entirely of delegates who were strongly influenced by the Necessarian school from Divine Wind.
The first Necessarian philosopher, Ooka, used Ender himself as the prime example of his ideas.
They rebuked me because it is the Necessarian school that provided the pivotal votes in the Starways Congress to send the Lusitania Fleet.
Tsutsumi representatives were talking to all the Japanese Congressmen, and many who were not Japanese but nevertheless followed the Necessarian line.
Reward and punishment must be considered, by the Necessarian, merely as motives which he would employ in order to procure the adoption or abandonment of any given line of conduct.
The necessarian theory, which in this connection is still advanced or implied, largely accepted as it has been, I cannot help thinking is really traceable to an oversight.
Calvinistic divine, Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New Jersey, produced, in the interests of the straitest orthodoxy, a demonstration of the necessarian thesis, which has never been equalled in power, and certainly has never been refuted.
All the Necessarians of Divine Wind are, naturally, Japanese, and the philosophy has become most influential among the Japanese, both on their home worlds and wherever they have a substantial population.
Starways Congress, the Necessarians, and the Lusitania Fleet, though of course he presented the ideas as if they were his own.
American bombs, the Necessarians have taken control of government and launched the Lusitania Fleet?
A world will be destroyed and Congress will look to the Necessarians for approval and they will give it, and then the Necessarians will look to me for approval, and I will hide my face in shame.
It is Jane's and my opinion that if we can get some prominent Necessarians to declare against the Lusitania Fleet -- with convincing reasoning, of course -- the solidarity of the pro-fleet majority in Congress will be broken up.
A world will be destroyed and Congress will look to the Necessarians for approval and they will give it, and then the Necessarians will look to me for approval, and I will hide my face in shame.