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transcendentalist|trɑːnsɛnˈdɛntəlɪst, træn-|
[f. as prec. + -ist. Cf. mod.F. transcendantaliste (Littré).]
An adherent of some form of transcendentalism. Also attrib.
1803Edin. Rev. Jan. 267 We will admit to the transcendentalist his solitary noumenon, and its separate functions. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 75 To a Transcendentalist, Matter has an existence, but only as a Phenomenon. 1840Boston Q. Rev. 270 The men who are affected by it [the new movement] are called by their opponents, Transcendentalists. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 32 Transcendentalist as he was by nature, so much so as to be in danger of lapsing into an oriental mysticism. 1879R. H. Hutton in W. Bagehot's Lit. Stud. Pref. Mem. 28 A thorough transcendentalist, by which I mean one who could never doubt that there was a real foundation of the universe distinct from the outward show of its superficial qualities, and that the substance is never exhaustively expressed in these qualities. 1882Athenæum 17 June 767/1 Miss Peabody..was prominent in the old transcendentalist movement.
Hence transcendentaˈlistic a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of transcendentalism; belonging to or held by transcendentalists.
1892Monist II. 265 If a philosophy denies the existence of transcendentalistic thought-entities or of any such things in themselves, which serve as cement to combine the disjecta membra of their world conception, it is generally declared to lead straight on to nihilism. |