Definition of free-thinker in English English dictionary
approval If you refer to someone as a free-thinker, you admire them because they work out their own ideas rather than accepting generally accepted views
in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century
One who thinks unbiassed by revelation or ecclesiastical canons, as deists and atheists "Atheist is an old-fashioned word I am a freethinker " - Addison Freezing-point We generally mean by this expression that degree of Fahrenheit's thermometer which indicates the temperature of frozen water - viz 32 above zero If we mean any other liquid we add the name, as the freezing-point of milk, sulphuric ether, quicksilver, and so on In Centigrade and Réaumur's instruments zero marks the freezing-point