Swedenborgian

English

Etymology

Swedenborg +‎ -ian

Adjective

Swedenborgian (comparative more Swedenborgian, superlative most Swedenborgian)

1. Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian.

Related terms

• Swedenborgianism

Translations

of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg

• French: swedenborgien (fr), swédenborgien
• German: swedenborgianisch, schwedenborgianisch (old spelling)
• Portuguese: swedenborgiano, swedenborguiano

Noun

Swedenborgian (plural Swedenborgians)

1. A religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76:

     As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.

Translations

a religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg

• French: swedenborgien (fr) m, swedenborgienne f, swédenborgien m, swédenborgienne f
• German: Swedenborgianer m, Swedenborgianerin f, Schwedenborgianer m (old spelling), Schwedenborgianerin f (old spelling)
• Portuguese: swedenborgiano m, swedenborguiano m