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† eˈternalist Obs. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One who believes in the eternal duration of the world.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth iii. 23 Porphyry..had the same principles with these æternalists in the text..and thought the world never had, nor ever would undergo any change. Ibid. iii. 42 Those eternalists that denyed the doctrine of the change and revolutions of the natural world. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |