A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
1Condorcet, another deist, was the successor of Voltaire in the Encyclopædic warfare.
2He would have knocked down a deist as soon as looked at him.
3He hated the insolent creed of the deist, and the ignorance of the agnostic.
4They are real children; a child is neither atheist nor deist, he is nothing.
5Vaguely deist, he saw in Jesus Christ only a wise man among the wise.
6I realise that the paper which I have read on 'Was Hegel a deist?'
7A deist in belief, he abhorred catholicism; a worshipper of self, he longed for power.
8Rousseau, too, was a deist -but he wanted to turn this outlook upside down.
9So, was he a deist, like Voltaire and Diderot?
10Am I talking with a deist or an atheist?
11Can deist, pantheist or atheist invent a better one?
12Of the four fellow-passengers one was a French deist, with whom he had many a debate.
13The creation is the Bible of the deist.
14The deist is an atheist lucky in classification.
15There are three epochs in the empire of a Frenchwoman-sheis coquette, then deist, then devote.
16He is a deist, his God an autocrat.