Malthus
English
Etymology
Compare Malthouse.
Proper noun
Malthus
- A surname from Middle English.
- Ellipsis of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Helotage”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 156:
- Enough for us to understand that Heuschrecke is a disciple of Malthus ; and so zealous for the doctrine, that his zeal almost literally eats him up.
- Ellipsis of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.