1830, Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry, 2nd edition, volume 1, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, →OCLC, page 173:
[…] in order to counteract the alchymistical and the theosophistical dogmas so common at that period.
1831 June, “[Reviewed work:]Lettres à M. Letronne […], [by Caspar] Reuvens[…]”, in The Edinburgh review, volume 53, number 106, Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, →OCLC, page 372:
he has succeeded in throwing a powerful and steady light on several points which were previously involved in mystery and darkness; and particularly in detecting the real source of those theosophisticalextravagancies which, engrafted on Christianity, constituted the gnosticism of the first ages of the Church.
1889 March 23, “Yearning reduced to absurdity”, in The Scots observer[1], volume 1, number 18, Edinburgh, London, →OCLC:
This is a volume of Theosophistical, and therefore nonsensical, essays.
[…] not by the questionable phenomena of dark séances, or the automatic writing-down of the puerile vagaries of imaginary “Julias,” or what the has pertinently called “the theosophisticalconcoctions” of the Theosophists.
1903, “Theosophists”, in John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, and schools of religious thought, New York: Longmans, Green, →OCLC, page 596:
This last named author oscillates between a comparative sanity, induced by his admiration for the Cartesian philosophy, and a more than Theosophistical madness due to the fascination of the mystic Madame Bourignon.
1997 November 28, jc, “Re: Glamour”, in alt.meditation[2] (Usenet), message-ID <347EB903.2202@bohm.anu.edu.au>:
Any brain cells in there, apart from pseudo-intellectual, patently theosophistical clap trap.
