| 释义 |
visionist|ˈvɪʒənɪst|
[f. vision n.]
1. One who has, or professes to have, visions; a professed visionary.
1665J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 43 The many gross fallacies put, even upon wise men, by such frequent Visionists. 1666Bp. S. Parker Free & Impart. Censure (1667) 66 We are so far from attaining any certain and real knowledge of Incorporeal Beings (of an acquaintance with which these Visionists [sc. Platonists] do boast). 1700Hickes Let. to Pepys 19 June, P.'s Diary (Chandos) 696, I asked this question, to know..whether these Second-Sight folks were Seers or Visionists. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic iii. Wks. 1840 XII. 312 This Jacob Behemen..was a kind of visionist. He pretended to see things invisible. 1809W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXVIII. 188 Joanna Southcott, a fanatical visionist of the present day. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 185 The visionist had deeper thoughts and more concealed feelings than these rhapsodical phantoms. 1877J. A. Chalmers Life Tiyo Soga xviii. (1878) 347 The third class is that of dreamers or visionists, who discover the nature of the disease.
2. One who supports the view that the Biblical account of creation was revealed to the writer in a vision or series of visions.
1888A. Cave Inspir. O. Test. iii. 129 A third class, the Visionists, also maintain the literal character of the days mentioned... In their view the days..refer to..the actual days of the revelation of the creation. |