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philosophist Now rare.|fɪˈlɒsəfɪst|
[In form, a deriv. of philosophize; but app. in sense 1, from L. philosophia or philosophy + -ist: see -ist 2. In sense 2 = F. philosophiste (1760 in Littré).]
†1. = philosopher 1. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. iv. (Arb.) 25 As they [Poets] were the first obseruers of all naturall causes and effects..they were the first Astronomers and Philosophists.
2. In depreciative use: One who philosophizes or speculates erroneously; applied polemically to the French Encyclopædists, and hence to rationalists and sceptics generally.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVI. 529 With the rash ridicule of a French philosophist, who does not..hesitate to extinguish hope, to withdraw consolation, or to abolish restraint. 1799H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 44 The same allurement..which was employed by the first philosophist to the first sinner—Knowledge. 1829K. Digby Broadst. Hon. I. Godefridus 9 Infidel philosophists and men of the new wisdom who know of nothing beyond the senses and their little reign. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 266 Let the Yankee-Gallico-philosophists work their will in the House of Commons and the Court of Chancery, they can hardly make them much worse than they have been. |