According to rules or principles of
metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.3. Preternatural or supernatural.
[Obs.]
The golden round
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal.
Shak.Met`a*phys"ic*al*ly, adv. In the
manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.
South.
Met`a*phy*si"cian (?), n. [Cf. F.
métaphysicien.] One who is versed in
metaphysics.
Met`a*phys"ics (?), n. [Gr. &?; &?; &?;
after those things which relate to external nature, after physics,
fr. &?; beyond, after + &?; relating to external nature, natural,
physical, fr. &?; nature: cf. F. métaphysique. See
Physics. The term was first used by the followers of Aristotle
as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or
followed, the part which treated of physics.]
1. The science of real as distinguished from
phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with
reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished
from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the
conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of
every kind of being; philosophy in general; first principles, or the
science of first principles.
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