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 speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp
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