pneumatistn.

Brit.

/ˈnjuːmətɪst/, U.S.

/ˈn(j)umədəst/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πνευματ- , πνεῦμα , -ist suffix.

Etymology: < ancient Greek πνευματ-, πνεῦμα (see pneuma n.) + -ist suffix. Compare Hellenistic Greek οἱ Πνευματικοί (see pneumatic adj. and n.). Compare slightly earlier somatist n. (compare quot. 1678 at sense 1) and earlier pneuma n. 2.

Now historical.

1. †(a) Philosophy. An advocate or adherent of an antimaterialistic theory of creation. Obsolete. rare. (b) History of Science. An advocate or adherent of the pneumatic theory of physiology. Cf. pneumatic adj. 5.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient > pneumatist

pneumatist1678

1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry 407 The Swmatists [i.e. Somatists] or Materialists supposed nothing to be in the world but Body..The Pneumatists opposed this Dogma by asserting one supreme Incorporeal substance, the Aitia or cause of all Beings besides its own.

1735 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) II. 194 Aretæus of Cappadocia was a Physician of the Sect of the Pneumatists.

1843 Southern Q. Rev. July 196 He [sc. Aretæus] belonged to the sect of pneumatists, and believed in a spiritual influence pervading the whole body.

1896 Classical Rev. 10 347/1 None of the works of the Pneumatists is extant, and we are indebted for all our knowledge of them to fragments and allusions in other writers.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 499/3 Pneumatists felt that an imbalance of the four humours—blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile)—disturbed the pneuma.

1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind iii. 68 Hippocratics, Herophileans and Erasistrateans were later challenged by the Pneumatists, who regarded pneuma as a fifth element which flowed through the arteries, sustaining vitality.

2. An advocate or practitioner of pneumatic medicine or chemistry.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > practising pneumatic medicine

pneumatist1799

1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 114 The chemical principles of the most celebrated pneumatists.

1998 Isis 89 221 Into old age, after the fall of Napoleon (and after the emperor himself had privately confessed to Sage that he was a ‘pneumatist’, an adherent of new chemical doctrine), Sage stuck to his guns.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pneumatist
释义	pneumatistn. Brit. /ˈnjuːmətɪst/, U.S. /ˈn(j)umədəst/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πνευματ- , πνεῦμα , -ist suffix. Etymology: < ancient Greek πνευματ-, πνεῦμα (see pneuma n.) + -ist suffix. Compare Hellenistic Greek οἱ Πνευματικοί (see pneumatic adj. and n.). Compare slightly earlier somatist n. (compare quot. 1678 at sense 1) and earlier pneuma n. 2. Now historical. 1. †(a) Philosophy. An advocate or adherent of an antimaterialistic theory of creation. Obsolete. rare. (b) History of Science. An advocate or adherent of the pneumatic theory of physiology. Cf. pneumatic adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient > pneumatist pneumatist1678 1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry 407 The Swmatists [i.e. Somatists] or Materialists supposed nothing to be in the world but Body..The Pneumatists opposed this Dogma by asserting one supreme Incorporeal substance, the Aitia or cause of all Beings besides its own. 1735 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) II. 194 Aretæus of Cappadocia was a Physician of the Sect of the Pneumatists. 1843 Southern Q. Rev. July 196 He [sc. Aretæus] belonged to the sect of pneumatists, and believed in a spiritual influence pervading the whole body. 1896 Classical Rev. 10 347/1 None of the works of the Pneumatists is extant, and we are indebted for all our knowledge of them to fragments and allusions in other writers. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia I. 499/3 Pneumatists felt that an imbalance of the four humours—blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile)—disturbed the pneuma. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind iii. 68 Hippocratics, Herophileans and Erasistrateans were later challenged by the Pneumatists, who regarded pneuma as a fifth element which flowed through the arteries, sustaining vitality. 2. An advocate or practitioner of pneumatic medicine or chemistry. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > practising pneumatic medicine pneumatist1799 1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 114 The chemical principles of the most celebrated pneumatists. 1998 Isis 89 221 Into old age, after the fall of Napoleon (and after the emperor himself had privately confessed to Sage that he was a ‘pneumatist’, an adherent of new chemical doctrine), Sage stuck to his guns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678
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