globulistn.
/ˈɡlɒbjᵿlɪst/, U.S. /ˈɡlɑbələst/ 1. Medicine. An advocate or practitioner of homeopathy. Cf. globule n. 4, globulism n. 1. Now rare.
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1850 Lancet 7 Sept. 302/1 Very few among the globulists will be found who are fools enough to trust to the veritably infinitesimal doses which it is pretended is the foundation of this odious system of quackery.
1860 C. J. Hempel Homoeopathy Preface p. xiv Wherever the homœopathic Law of Cure is interpreted as a petty formula for symptom-mongers and globulists.
1865 Daily Tel. 15 July I would rather be killed by a legitimate practitioner than get well under the hands of a globulist.
1902 R. Hughes Princ. & Pract. Homœopathy xiv. 181 As every one who will look into our literature may satisfy himself, we are not globulists.
2. History of Science. An advocate of the theory that the tissues and organs of plants and animals are composed of globules. Cf. globulism n. 2.
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1977 Science 9 Dec. 1028/2 The globulists held a crude version of the direct assimilation theory. According to them all animals and plants were constructed from microscopic particles called ‘globules’.
1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 349 228/2 William Hewson, another globulist, in 1771 confirmed Leeuwenhoek's finding of globules in the blood and that they swelled and shrank in different solutions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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