associationistn.

1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 186 Groups of..industrious Associationists.

1881 E. Purcell in Academy 22 Jan. 56 The wretched Church Associationist is reduced to auricular confession.

1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 55 The beautiful..instead of being, as the Associationists affirm, merely a chameleon-like phantasm.

1876 Mind 1 322 It is only with a very small part..of what is distinctive in the teaching of the associationist philosophers that we are at present concerned.

1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 209 The English associationist school..had also represented choice and decision as nothing but the resultant of different ideas failing to neutralize each other exactly.

1882 Athenæum 28 Jan. 119/1 Prof. Bain..the last of the Associationists.

1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe xii. 500 The associationist psychology.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 353 The chain of distinct existences into which Hume thus chopped up our ‘stream’ was adopted by all of his successors as a complete inventory of the facts. The associationist Philosophy was founded.

1897 W. James Will to Believe 128 The strict associationist school..under the domination of Mill, Bain, and Spencer dominated us but yesterday.

1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. iii. 44 When anthropologists even as recent as Tylor and Frazer looked to psychology for aid it was to associationist psychology that they looked.