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单词 formalist
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formalistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈfɔːməlɪst/, /ˈfɔːml̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈfɔrmələst/
Etymology: < formal adj. + -ist suffix.
A. n.
1. A formal person, a solemn pretender to wisdom. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun]
owl1568
tire-brain1589
wiseacre1595
Solonist1607
formalist1612
nodder1625
Solon1631
wiseling1633
self-wiseling1649
sophy1649
Solomon1656
conjurer1668
wisdomship1692
sage1751
wisehead1756
wisebones1894
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 120 There are in point of wisdome..that doe nothing or little verie solemlie..It is a ridiculous thing..to see what shiftes these formalists have..to make Superficies to seeme body, that hath depth and bulke.
2. One who formally adheres to the prevailing system; a time-server in religion. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to > slavish > person characterized by
formalist1609
ritualist1625
ceremonialist1682
rubrician?1734
formalizer1742
rubricist1843
Rit1868
externalist1879
spike1902
1609 G. Downame Treat. Christian Libertie 75 Do not many..thinke themselues the more religious, for refusing obedience..to the lawes, and censure others as formalists and time-seruers?
1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) iii. iv. i. v. 682 New Priests will haue new ceremonies,..to which euery wise man as a good Formalist should accommodate himselfe.
1632 D. Lupton London & Countrey Carbonadoed (1857) 276 A great Formalist. and an hazardable temporizer.
3.
a. One who is excessively attached to forms; a stickler for fixed rule, etiquette, routine, or ceremonial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > conformity to established rules > one who
formalist1706
formulist1852
formularist1895
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 183 Those Formalists, who demand Explications of the least ambiguous Word.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 36 Oh ye cold-hearted, frozen, Formalists! On such a Theme, 'tis impious to be calm.
1819 W. Scott Drama in Encycl. Brit.: Suppl. 4th–6th Eds. III. ii. 668/2 The former may be called the formalist of dramatic criticism.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 19 Nobody..except the solemn formalists at the Spanish embassy, thought his youth an objection to his promotion.
b. One who has the form of religion without the power.
ΚΠ
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. iv. 47 The Ceremonies are Idols to Formalists.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 50 Though the formalist will say, what no decency in Gods worship?
1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. xxviii. 1 Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot.
4. Scottish ? An authority on legal forms. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > authority on legal forms
formalist1612
1612 Spottiswood Let. in Scot Apol. Narr. (1846) 236 To make choice of my Lord Secretary to be our formalist and adviser of our acts.
5. A follower or advocate of formalism n. 3, 4, 5.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > theories or branches of > one who holds theory
infinitesimalist1863
momentarian1863
number theorist1912
formalist1913
frequentist1949
game theorist1950
finitist1960
constructivist1979
chaologist1987
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > types of > advocate of
formalist1913
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories > adherent of
modernist1703
symbolist1812
romanticist1821
classicist1827
romantic1827
symbolizer1854
archaist1867
realist1868
verist1884
naturalist1888
naturist1892
Teutonist1894
veritist1894
literary theorist1896
neoclassicist1899
social realist1909
futurist1911
postmodernist1914
vorticist1914
postmodern1917
Scythian1923
surrealist1925
populist1930
ultraist1931
socialist-realist1935
lettrist1946
New Negro1953
formalist1955
pre-modernist1962
Scyth1972
dirty realist1987
po-mo1996
1913 tr. L. E. J. Brouwer in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. XX. 83 For the formalist..mathematical exactness consists merely in the method of developing the series of relations, and is independent of the significance one might want to give to the relations or the entities which they relate.
1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 635/2 The ‘Formalists’ held that the naturalistic theatre was not art, but a soulless attempt to photograph life.
1934 P. A. Markov Soviet Theatre vii. 119 The ‘formalists’..stressed the need for freeing the actor from the bonds of realism or æstheticism.
1941 R. Courant & H. E. Robbins What is Math.? iv. 216 The clash between the intuitionists and the formalists has been much publicized by passionate partisans of these schools.
1954 A. J. Ayer Philos. Ess. ix. 221 The formalist aims to get rid of numbers by construing statements about numbers as statements about signs.
1955 V. Erlich Russ. Formalism i. vi. 95 By focussing sharply on the specific aims and methods of literary scholarship, the Formalists had induced their Marxian opponents to get off the high horse of dialectical generalizations.
1967 A. S. Gillette Introd. Scenic Design xii. 165 The goal of the formalists originally was to return to a completely functional theatre.
1971 Sci. Amer. Aug. 92/2 A Formalist is likely to say that the real-number line is whatever we define it to be.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to formalism, in various senses; formalistic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [adjective] > conforming to a standard rule > conforming to prescribed forms > merely
fashional?1607
fashionable1608
fashionarya1640
formal1649
pro forma1823
formalistic1856
formalist1900
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory
classic1743
classical1784
Alexandrian1803
romantic1812
realistic1829
realista1832
romanticist1831
symbolistic1864
symbolistical1864
neo-romantic1875
naturalistic1876
Alexandrine1877
neoclassical1877
veristic1884
impressionistic1886
impressionary1889
romanticistic1889
sensitivist1891
veritistic1894
Félibrian1908
symbolic1910
vorticist1914
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
postmodernist1926
surrealistic1930
ultraist1931
socialist-realist1935
lettrist1947
social realist1949
social realistic1949
formalist1955
1900 B. Russell Crit. Expos. Philos. Leibniz xiv. 170 But as a method of pursuing philosophy, it had the formalist defect which results from a belief in analytic propositions, and which led Spinoza to employ a geometrical method.
1926 Proc. London Math. Soc. 25 339 I hold that mathematics is part of logic, and so belong to..the logical school as opposed to the formalist and intuitionist schools.
1931 K. E. Kirk Vision of God iii. iii. 132 The characteristic dangers of Judaism..were exactly the dangers that formalist codification tends to foster.
1955 V. Erlich Russ. Formalism i. iii. 47 In Petersburg..the first steps of the Formalist movement were marked by a close alliance with the poetic avant-garde.
1967 G. H. Hamilton Painting & Sculpture in Europe 5 The scope of strictly formalist criticism has undoubtedly been enlarged by surrealism and by the doctrines of social realism.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 787/2 The Formalist philosophy was an exemplary one in several respects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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