Pythagoreanism

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Pythagorean +‎ -ism

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Pythagoreanism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers.
    • 1987, Edward George Weltin, Athens and Jerusalem: An Interpretative Essay on Christianity and Classical Culture, Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 71:
      Only two Greek philosophies, Pythagoreanism and neo-Platonism, might be called basically religious. Even early Pythagoreanism prior to 450 B.C. had a strong religious strain.
  2. (food) Vegetarianism.

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