mathematic

Mathematical.

Adjective

  1. Mathematical.
    • Round rolls the stroke with mathematic care, All centre-bound, exactly circular: No sportive way it takes, at large and free, No gambol plays of freakful liberty […] - c. 1798, Joseph Fawcett, On Viſiting the Gardens at...
    • This is the sort of struggle which proves a man's metal, and declares it sterling or counterfeit. No spuriosity, no charlatanry can stand this fiery alembic of hard-wrought and exquisite calculation, in which one...

Origin

From Middle English mathematik, from Old French mathematique or directly from Latin mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μᾰθημᾰτῐκός (măthēmătĭkós), from μάθημα (máthēma, “learning; mathematics”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjective suffix).

Forms

more mathematic most mathematic mathematick

Derived

mathematicaster mathematicise mathematicism mathematicistic mathematicity mathematicization mathematicize mathematics