1834, Thomas Medwin, “Seventeenth day”, in The angler in Wales : or, days and nights of sportsmen, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 283:
Who would not rather be a revolutionary materialist, or an animal-magnetic Theosoph? In fact, they believe everything and nothing.
1843 July, F. A. Strale, “Fugitive thoughts”, in John Holmes Agnew, editor, American eclectic and museum of literature, science, and art, volume 2, New York: E. Littell, →OCLC, page 394:
[…] diverged into the winding and obscure paths of a labyrinth, where arose on some circumscribed basis of experiments, the speculative structures of the theosoph, the astrologer and the alchemist.
1845, John B. Gorman, Philosophy of animated existence, or, Sketches of living physics : with discussions of physiology philosophical, to which is added a brief medical account of the middle regions of Georgia, Philadelphia: Sorin & Ball, →OCLC, page 276:
[…]Pythagoras studied many centuries afterwards in Egypt, where this great theosoph and prophet himself had been educated, […]
1851, James O'Connell, Vestiges of civilization: or, The aetiology of history, religious, aesthetical, political and philosophical, New York: H. Bailliere, →OCLC, page 372:
The analytic spirit of the latter sysem[sic] was inquisitive throughout, from the pondering of the theosoph upon the egg of chaos, in quest of the origin of the universe, […]
1873 April, John P. Lacroix, “Culmann's Christian ethics”, in Bibliotheca sacra[1], volume 30, Andover: Warren F. Draper, →OCLC, page 361:
The author was a speculative theosoph of the school of Schelling as transformed by the evangelical thinking of Baader and Schaden.
1876 June 22, London Daily News[2], London, page 5:
Chicago has lost one of her ornaments, and the world of thought a philosopher whom the American papers call a Theosophist, or, rather, as that is a long word, a Theosoph.
1884 July 25, “Three American thaumaturgists are quite prominent in London”, in The Constitution[3], Atlanta, GA, page 4:
1892 July, Henry M. Doak, “The supernatural in Shakespeare”, in Shakespeariana, volume 9, number 3, Philadelphia: L. Scott, →OCLC, page 224:
Theosoph and spiritmedium claim the Prospero gift; […] the capacity of man to discover and to use extraordinary forces, spirit agencies, the means of the theosoph, and the gifts of hypnotism, clairvoyance, and mind-reading, affording a power dependent only upon knowledge of existing natural forces, hitherto unknown.
1910 January, Otto Raubenheimer, “History of maceration and percolation”, in The American journal of pharmacy[4], volume 82, Philadelphia: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, →ISSN, page 33:
[…] these preparations come into more general use through […]Paracelsus[…], that much abused and envied physician-pharmacist, chemist, philosopher, and theosoph, the founder of iatro-chemistry (medicalchemistry), which in contrast to alchemy[…]
