单词 | opinionist |
释义 | opinionistn. 1. a. A person who holds an opinion or doctrine against the generally accepted view; a dissenter. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person sectator?1541 sectary1558 sectare1563 sectuary1592 disjunctive1596 separator1607 swermer1607 swermerian1607 separatist1608 sectist1612 separate1612 opinionist1613 separistc1616 seeker1617 sectarist1618 sectarian1827 come-outer1840 denominationalist1870 disjunctionist1872 1613 J. Stephens Cinthia's Revenge Ded. sig. A2 Yet shall the more attractiue and pure iudgements haue..a free election,..without incurring the name of Nice, deuided Opinionists. 1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 Seeing the deedes of the most iust..haue beene diuersely traduced by..the Times opinionists; what shall such an ignorant as I expect? 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 160 The Mahometan Doctours..bended themselues against this late Opinionist. 1661 J. Ray Three Itin. ii. 161 There are few or no sectaries or opinionists among them. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) 68 This general agreement struck a damp upon the opinionists. 1800 J. B. Williamson Preservation iv. 53 Read there an argument for life, more strong, Than the most firm opinionist e'er hatch'd, For foul self-murder! 1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock ii. 19 In reply to such conceited opinionists, I need only observe, that facts can never be outweighed by visionary speculations. 1888 G. E. Ellis Puritan Age 353 Surrounded as she was by eccentric and self-willed opinionists of all discordant notions, she endeavored..to maintain an orderly religious assembly. 1997 J. Kamensky Governing Tongue 77 Although the synod succeeded in defining the kind of speech with which the colony's authorities would proceed against their enemies, it failed to silence the ‘opinionists’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > opinionist > [noun] opinionist1693 1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xix. 219 They were called also Opinionists. 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Opinionists, a Name given in Pope Paul's time, to a Sect that boasted of affected Poverty, and held there could be no Vicar of Christ on earth that did not practice this Vertue. 2. The holder of any specified or implied opinion. In later use with prefixed adjective, as botanical, liberal, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > [noun] > holder of opinion judgerc1449 opiniator1534 opiniate1597 opinor1611 setter-forth1611 opinator1626 opinionista1636 opiner1656 opinionator1677 opinionatera1716 opinant1860 a1636 T. Westcote View Devonshire 1630 (1845) 44 Every hearer and author hath his private opinion, and every opinionist his peculiar judgment and censure. 1647 Thomason Tracts (Brit. Libr.) CCCXXXVI. No. 22. 2 Whether have you any general rule of good education..which may be admirable to all opinionists? 1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 2) 111 On receiving a damp from a genteel opinionist in poetry. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. xv. 295 In estimating the accuracy of a political opinion, one should take into consideration the standing of the opinionist. 1887 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 14 138 With this class of botanical opinionists it stood as Nummularia Norvegica. 1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 23 Aug. g2 This dream has spawned wondrous hawkishness on the part of Congressional Democrats, liberal opinionists and even some of our conservative brethren. 2002 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 22 Mar. 15 He particularly relishes the phenomenon that most nettles linguistic opinionists: language change. 3. A person whose business is to give a professional opinion; a person who decides a controversy. ΚΠ 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xvii. 289 Hence comes an appropriate branch of made business, the trade of the law-adviser or opinionist: the opinion trade. 1888 Libr. Mag. Mar. 245 They were called Saboraim, ‘Decisors’, ‘Opinionists’. 1924 Jrnl. Social Forces 2 285/2 How many such students to every thousand superficial dogmatists and ‘opinionists’ on both sides of the questions involved? 1970 Social Forces 48 421/2 The largely congruent views of public opinionist Samuel Lubell, educational critic Irving Kristol, and community planner Roger Starr. 2001 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 June a-8 Opinionists in the mainstream press would say the victors lacked a mandate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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