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systematist|ˈsɪstɪmətɪst, -stəm-|
[f. Gr. σύστηµα, -ατ- system + -ist.]
One who constructs, or adheres to, a system, esp. a system of classification in natural history; a classifying naturalist.
In Kirby's use, an advocate of a natural in preference to an artificial system of classification (opp. to methodist 2 b).
1700S. Parker Six Philos. Ess. 46 Your peremptory Systematist boldly distorts Nature. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Supp., Systematists, in botany, those authors, whose works in this science are principally employed about the arranging plants into certain orders, classes, or genera. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 248/2 Grew..was no systematist; it was reserved for another Englishman [sc. John Ray] to discover the true principles of classification. 1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sci. (1847) II. 557 The Fishes, in which province Cuvier has..been the great systematist. 1902Edin. Rev. Oct. 370 Kaspar Bauhin (1550–1624), the first great botanical systematist. |