parallelistn.adj.

1754 T. Warton Obs. Spencer's Faery Queen 181 (note) It is true, in general, that parallelists mistake Resemblances for Thefts.

1810 J. Beresford Bibliosophia 124 For the purpose of carrying on my business of a Parallelist to the last.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 310 The parallelist compares Erasmus to ‘a river swelling its waters’.

1855 Ladies' Repository Mar. 179/1 The parallelists profess to discover striking connections not only between the commands, but also important significance in the numbers of the commands.

1925 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 40 339 The scene of the Donau in The Robbers which Wordsworth praised..is said..to have influenced the description of the setting sun in The Excursion. But this seems..a last desperate effort of the parallelist.

1949 H. Wilcox Six Moons in Sulawesi vii. 156 Much of the Old Testament is in the same parallelist idiom.

2000 Hotline (Nexis) 10 May (Media Monitor section) Only by comparing this decade with past decades can we begin to understand just where we are headed as people. Daily Show's chief historical parallelists..are here to break it down for us.

1883 Daily News 17 Apr. 5/1 Mr. L— is a strong parallelist. He insists on the hair being dressed, and whatever covering may be put upon the head being made to accord with the parallel lines of the face, and with the line of the eyebrows.

1899 Philos. Rev. 8 164 Psychology to-day accepts the parallelist hypothesis, not because it is in harmony with the dynamical theory, but because it accords strikingly with the facts of cerebral physiology.

1903 C. A. Strong Why Mind has Body i. vii. 126 The two arguments most commonly appealed to by parallelists.

1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place iii. 124 The orthodox Parallelist..goes much further.

1976 Progress in Sci. Culture (E. Majorana Centre) Spring 11 It must not be naively assumed that these brain events are sufficient for the conscious experiences... This in fact is the parallelist position.

1987 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 38 416 Parallelists may declare the mind a true entity proper.

1929 Amer. Anthropologist 31 144 In an endeavour to accent the rôle of diffusion as against the evolutionists (or better parallelists), he surely swung too far in giving to diffusion a quite unwarranted share of the credit.

1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory v. 48 Apart from the parallelist faith in universal stages, we note the erroneous idea that totemism generally implies worship.

1950 R. Piddington Introd. Social Anthropol. I. i. 27 Obviously, claimed the parallelists, there had been no contact between these peoples, and the similarity in custom must be explained by the operation of similar psychological processes in the two widely separated areas.

1977 Amer. Anthropologist 79 10 The parallelist might assert that the idea of zero was invented independently both in Olmec civilization and by Arabs.