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conˈtemplatist Obsolescent.
[f. L. contemplāt- (see contemplate) + -ist.]
A person devoted to contemplation or meditation; a contemplator.
1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. (1671) 35 She exhorts the highest Contemplatists. 1762J. Cunningham (title), The Contemplatist; a Night Piece. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. viii. 202 To reconcile the contemplatist to the want of those enjoyments which are to be obtained only by toil. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 697 The one individual self-contemplatist. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. vi. 222 The contemplatist regards the kingdom of heaven as internal, and sees in the history of souls a continual day of judgment. |