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Adjectivisation

Adjectivisation is the process by which a person's name is made into and used as an adjective, often to refer to their creative works and achievements.

Adjectivisation

Adjectivisation is a term that Cometan coined post-omnidoxically to refer to the process in which Cometan's name was transformed into an adjective, namely Cometanic as well as the adverb Cometanically.

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This type of adjectivisation process has occurred in relation to other historical figures, namely including the following figures:

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  • Cometan (Cometanic)

  • Plato (Platonic)

  • Socrates (Socratic)

  • Pythagoras (Pythagorean)

  • Confucius (Confucian)

  • Aristotle (Aristotelian)

  • Immanuel Kant (Kantian)

  • Friedrich Nietzche (Nietzschean)

  • David Hume (Humean)

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (Wittgensteinian)

  • Karl Marx (Marxian)

  • Baruch Spinoza (Spinozist)

  • John Locke (Lockean)

  • Thomas Hobbes (Hobbesian)

  • Søren Kierkegaard (Kierkegaardian)

  • Epicurus (Epicurean)

  • Michel Foucault (Foucauldian)

  • Francis Bacon (Baconian)

  • Augustine of Hippo (Augustinian)

  • Jeremy Bentham (Benthamite)

  • George Berkeley (Berkeleian)

  • Niccolò Machiavelli (Machiavellian)

  • Vladimir Lenin (Leninist)

  • Martin Luther (Lutheran)

  • Zoroaster (Zoroastrian)

  • Jesus Christ (Christian)

  • Gautama Buddha (Buddhist)

  • Abraham (Abrahamic)

  • Thomas Jefferson (Jeffersonian)

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This adjectivisation is used in order to refer to the beliefs, writings, and teachings of these figures and the adjective Cometanic is used in this same way.

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