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ˈpneumatist rare.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
†1. A student or practitioner of pneumatic medicine: see pneumatic a. 2, quot. 1822–34. Obs.
1799Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. 114 The chemical principles of the most celebrated pneumatists.
2. Hist. A ‘pneumatic physician’: see pneumatic a. 3 c.
1884W. G. Stevenson in Pop. Sci. Monthly XXIV. 761 The pneuma was deemed such an important factor in the explanation of vital phenomena, that a school called ‘Pneumatists’ was founded in the first century of our era... For fourteen hundred years ‘pneumatism’ under various forms was the accepted philosophic belief of the civilized world. |