HUME

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• HUME (noun)
  The noun HUME has 1 sense:

1. Scottish philosopher skeptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)

  Familiarity information: HUME used as a noun is very rare.

• HUME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish philosopher skeptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

David Hume; Hume

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

“I make it five,” cried Sir Lothian Hume.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"And Hume's mind was the same as yours, with this difference: he was wise enough to admit there was no answering Berkeley."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If a speech be well drawn up, I read it with pleasure, by whomsoever it may be made—and probably with much greater, if the production of Mr. Hume or Mr. Robertson, than if the genuine words of Caractacus, Agricola, or Alfred the Great.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Sir Lothian Hume had been looking impatiently at his watch, and now he shut it with a triumphant snap.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You know what Hume said?" Hamilton asked.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the meantime Berkeley Craven, who had been exchanging a few words with Sir Lothian Hume, came back to our side.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"In his, Hume's, mind," was the reply.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Who had an interest unless it was—I know Sir Lothian Hume to be a desperate man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’ll umpire if Sir Lothian Hume will do the same, and you can hold the watch and referee, Jackson.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle’s eyes had rested upon it, but his attention had been drawn away by the discussion between Sir Lothian Hume and the referee upon the question of time.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)