mentalistn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɛntl̩ɪst/, U.S.

/ˈmɛn(t)ələst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mental adj.¹, -ist suffix.

Etymology: < mental adj.¹ + -ist suffix.

A. n.

1. A person characterized by regard for or use of the mental faculties.

†a. A person whose public statements are qualified by mental reservations. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1616 S. Page 9 Serm. i. 2 All Aequiuocators and Mentalists, who are ready to tender their Soueraignes some outward and formall Submission, without the Soule, and inward affection.

†b. A person whose taste is for mental rather than material pleasures. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 75 The mentalist, whose enjoyments depend more on those delights, which are adapted to soothe his imagination,..will find [etc.].

†c. A person whose artistic aim is the expression of thought. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 48 278 A purpose which is distinct both from that of the mentalists and the materialists of the [painting] art.

d. A magician who performs feats which apparently demonstrate extraordinary mental powers, such as telepathy, precognition, etc.; a mind-reader.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer

jugglera1100

tregetour1340

hey-passa1593

prestigiator1595

baffler1606

feat-worker1617

hocus-pocus1624

hocus1647

chirosophist1652

fascinator1677

legerdemain1696

prestidigitator1712

conjurer1727

sleight-of-hand man1757

nimble-fingers1781

sleight-of-hand professor1801

legerdemainist1830

magician1834

illusionist1850

jongleura1851

wizard1859

deceptionist1883

mentalist1906

1906 Sphinx Mar. 5/2 Mr. Wm. Broderson, a prominent merchant of San Francisco, has considerable fame as an illusionist and mentalist in his city and occasionally exhibits his skill there.

1909 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 6 June 40/6 Special Engagement of Pearl Tangeley The Egyptian Mentalist. The most astounding exhibition of mental telepathy ever witnessed.

1925 Sphinx July 159/2 (heading) Attention, Mentalists!

1949 Amer. Speech 24 41 The whole study of magic is divided into several specialties, and the magician may be characterized by the type of magic he does. If his field is mind reading, he is called a mental worker, mental magician, or mentalist.

1991 D. R. Koontz Cold Fire iii. i. 361 He'd given up being an accountant, found a showbiz wife, and was making his living doing a mentalist act.

1999 Independent 31 May ii. 7/1 Call him a mentalist, or a psycho-magician; call him a perceptionist if you prefer.

2. In Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, etc.: a person who advocates the theory of mentalism (mentalism n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [noun] > mentalism and its adherents

mentalism1895

mentalist1927

1882 H. Sidgwick in Mind 7 542 The Mentalists do not quite reply in the same strain.

1927 B. Russell Outl. Philos. xxvii. 303 Idealists in the technical sense, or mentalists, as Dr. Broad more appropriately calls them.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. ix. 142 For the mentalist, language is the expression of ideas, feelings, or volition.

3. British slang. A crazy, uncontrolled, or eccentric person; a ‘nutcase’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person

woodman1297

madmanc1330

lunatic1377

franticc1380

madwomana1438

March harec1500

Bedlam beggar1525

fanaticc1525

bedlama1529

frenetic1528

Jack o' Bedlam1528

Tom o' Bedlam1569

crack-brain1570

madbrain1570

Tom1575

madcap1589

gelt1596

madhead1600

brainsick1605

madpash1611

non compos1628

madling1638

bedlam-man1658

bedlamerc1675

fan1682

bedlamite1691

cracka1701

lymphatic1708

shatter-brain1719

mad1729

maniaca1763

non compos mentis1765

shatter-pate1775

shatter-wit1775

insane1786

craze1831

dement1857

crazy1867

crackpot1883

loony1884

bug1885

psychopath1885

dingbat1887

psychopathic1890

ding-a-ling1899

meshuggener1900

détraqué1902

maddiea1903

nut1908

mental1913

ding1929

lakes1934

wack1938

fruitcake1942

nutty1942

barm-pot1951

nutcake1953

nutter1958

nutcase1959

nut job1959

meshuga1962

nutsy1964

headcase1965

nutball1968

headbanger1973

nutso1975

wacko1977

nut bar1978

mentalist1990

1990 C. Greenland Take back Plenty (1991) (BNC) My sister, Marigold the Mentalist.

1997 P. Baynham et al. I'm Alan Partridge (B.B.C. TV script) 1st Ser. Episode 5. 31 Yeah, no way you big spastic! You're a mentalist!

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 17 June (Weekend Suppl.) 5 In the taxi on the way home, I realised I was becoming a mentalist. Truly, this is the nearest I think I've ever been to going nuts.

2003 Eastern Eye 14 Feb. 8/1 He was basically a tiny kid but he was a mentalist on the pitch.

B. adj.

Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [adjective] > of other branches of

Berkeleiana1743

egoistica1834

mentalistic1882

immanental1885

non-substantialist1893

philosophico-psychological1899

introjectionist1903

mentalist1948

1948 C. F. Hockett in Amer. Scientist 36 563 Unfortunately, neither the vitalist nor the mentalist assumption tells us what experiments to perform, what observations to make, in order to test its validity.

1956 R. Jakobson & M. Halle Fund. of Lang. ii. 11 The mentalist view... In the oldest of these approaches,..the phoneme is a sound imagined or intended, opposed to the emitted sound.

1966 Philosophy 41 141 We must give a sense to this mentalist and substance vocabulary.

1972 Language 48 418 A mentalist tradition more recent than the ‘Cartesian’.

1992 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 37 42 From a mentalist point of view, the word has priority over the sentence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mentalist
释义	mentalistn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɛntl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɛn(t)ələst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mental adj.¹, -ist suffix. Etymology: < mental adj.¹ + -ist suffix. A. n. 1. A person characterized by regard for or use of the mental faculties. †a. A person whose public statements are qualified by mental reservations. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1616 S. Page 9 Serm. i. 2 All Aequiuocators and Mentalists, who are ready to tender their Soueraignes some outward and formall Submission, without the Soule, and inward affection. †b. A person whose taste is for mental rather than material pleasures. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 75 The mentalist, whose enjoyments depend more on those delights, which are adapted to soothe his imagination,..will find [etc.]. †c. A person whose artistic aim is the expression of thought. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 48 278 A purpose which is distinct both from that of the mentalists and the materialists of the [painting] art. d. A magician who performs feats which apparently demonstrate extraordinary mental powers, such as telepathy, precognition, etc.; a mind-reader. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer jugglera1100 tregetour1340 hey-passa1593 prestigiator1595 baffler1606 feat-worker1617 hocus-pocus1624 hocus1647 chirosophist1652 fascinator1677 legerdemain1696 prestidigitator1712 conjurer1727 sleight-of-hand man1757 nimble-fingers1781 sleight-of-hand professor1801 legerdemainist1830 magician1834 illusionist1850 jongleura1851 wizard1859 deceptionist1883 mentalist1906 1906 Sphinx Mar. 5/2 Mr. Wm. Broderson, a prominent merchant of San Francisco, has considerable fame as an illusionist and mentalist in his city and occasionally exhibits his skill there. 1909 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 6 June 40/6 Special Engagement of Pearl Tangeley The Egyptian Mentalist. The most astounding exhibition of mental telepathy ever witnessed. 1925 Sphinx July 159/2 (heading) Attention, Mentalists! 1949 Amer. Speech 24 41 The whole study of magic is divided into several specialties, and the magician may be characterized by the type of magic he does. If his field is mind reading, he is called a mental worker, mental magician, or mentalist. 1991 D. R. Koontz Cold Fire iii. i. 361 He'd given up being an accountant, found a showbiz wife, and was making his living doing a mentalist act. 1999 Independent 31 May ii. 7/1 Call him a mentalist, or a psycho-magician; call him a perceptionist if you prefer. 2. In Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, etc.: a person who advocates the theory of mentalism (mentalism n. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [noun] > mentalism and its adherents mentalism1895 mentalist1927 1882 H. Sidgwick in Mind 7 542 The Mentalists do not quite reply in the same strain. 1927 B. Russell Outl. Philos. xxvii. 303 Idealists in the technical sense, or mentalists, as Dr. Broad more appropriately calls them. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. ix. 142 For the mentalist, language is the expression of ideas, feelings, or volition. 3. British slang. A crazy, uncontrolled, or eccentric person; a ‘nutcase’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1990 C. Greenland Take back Plenty (1991) (BNC) My sister, Marigold the Mentalist. 1997 P. Baynham et al. I'm Alan Partridge (B.B.C. TV script) 1st Ser. Episode 5. 31 Yeah, no way you big spastic! You're a mentalist! 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 17 June (Weekend Suppl.) 5 In the taxi on the way home, I realised I was becoming a mentalist. Truly, this is the nearest I think I've ever been to going nuts. 2003 Eastern Eye 14 Feb. 8/1 He was basically a tiny kid but he was a mentalist on the pitch. B. adj. Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [adjective] > of other branches of Berkeleiana1743 egoistica1834 mentalistic1882 immanental1885 non-substantialist1893 philosophico-psychological1899 introjectionist1903 mentalist1948 1948 C. F. Hockett in Amer. Scientist 36 563 Unfortunately, neither the vitalist nor the mentalist assumption tells us what experiments to perform, what observations to make, in order to test its validity. 1956 R. Jakobson & M. Halle Fund. of Lang. ii. 11 The mentalist view... In the oldest of these approaches,..the phoneme is a sound imagined or intended, opposed to the emitted sound. 1966 Philosophy 41 141 We must give a sense to this mentalist and substance vocabulary. 1972 Language 48 418 A mentalist tradition more recent than the ‘Cartesian’. 1992 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 37 42 From a mentalist point of view, the word has priority over the sentence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1616
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