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a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. B3 He that will be a flat decotamest,..Is in your iudgment thought a learned man.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Pref. The booke, although..not such as may in euery point satisfie the curiositie of Dichotomistes.

1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith 3 Curious Dichotomists, neuer allotting more then two branches to one stocke.

1882 W. Ogle tr. Aristotle Parts Anim. 13 Privative terms..which are unavailable to the dichotomist [Gk. ἐν δὲ τῇ διχοτομίᾳ οὐ ποιήσουσιν].

1912 F. J. Hall Creation & Man vi. 194 Dichotomists regard the soul and spirit as substantially one.

1957 R. Denney Astonished Muse ix. 202 If you reject Descartes, you may be bored by the mind-body dichotomist.

2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 11 He received the support of noteworthy fellows of the radical Zoological Club..—dichotomists, quinarians, Lamarckians—all hostile to the Linnaean ancient regime.

1847 C. W. Buch tr. K. R. Hagenbach Compend. Hist. Doctr. II. 248 Most writers adopted the dichotomistic principle [Ger. vorherrschend ist die Dichotomie], according to which man consists of body and soul.

1947 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 18 255/1 Catholic education does not look upon the education and guidance of a student from either an atomistic or a dichotomistic point of view. It considers the total individual.

1999 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 26 June 18 I am sure that people with a blind nationalistic and dichotomistic mindset will be reassured that only those 100 per cent Australian will be deemed to be suitable to represent our unilaterally minded society.