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dichotomist|daɪˈkɒtəmɪst|
[f. dichotom-y + -ist.]
One who dichotomizes, or classifies by dichotomy.
c1592Marlowe Massacre Paris i. viii, He that will be a flat dichotomist..Is in your judgment thought a learned man. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Pref., The booke, although..not such as may in euery point satisfie the curiositie of Dichotomistes. c1630Jackson Creed iv. i, Curious dichotomists never allotting more than two branches to one stock. 1882W. Ogle tr. Aristotle's Parts Anim. 13 Privative terms..which are not available to the dichotomist.
Hence diˌchotoˈmistic a., pertaining to a dichotomist, or to dichotomy.
1847Buck tr. Hagenbach's Hist. Doctr. II. 248 Most writers adopted the dichotomistic principle, according to which man consists of body and soul. |