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mathematic noun & adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French mathematique or Latin mathematicus from Greek mathematikos, from mathema(t-) something learned, science, from base of manthanein learn. As noun repr. ellipt. uses of the fem. adjectives (sc. Latin ars, disciplina, Greek tekhne, theoria).]
A. noun. See also MATHEMATICS.
= MATHEMATICS. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
A mathematician; an astrologer. M16-L17.
In pl. Dice which roll true. L17-E18.
b. adjective. = MATHEMATICAL adjective. Now rare. LME.
? Gradually superseded as noun between 16 and 18 by MATHEMATICS in the modern sense (from which sense 1 is a late back-form. emphasizing the unity of the subject, app. after German Mathematik).