protoplasmistn.
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)ˈplaz(ə)mɪst/, U.S. /ˌproʊdəˈplæz(ə)məst/ Now rare.
A person who studies or is concerned with protoplasm.
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protoplasmist1876
cytologist1884
cytopathologist1920
1876 H. P. Blavatsky in Banner of Light 14 Oct. 8/1 The Protoplasmist should at least, in modesty, remember that his past is one vast cemetery of dead theories.
1880 S. Butler Unconscious Memory xiii. 279 The protoplasmists..are whittling away at the ego, till they have reduced it to a little jelly in certain parts of the body.
1884 C. A. Bartol in Homilet. Monthly (N.Y.) July 550 Amid the slime protoplasmists tell of at the bottom of the sea.
1918 E. Holmes Probl. of Soul v. 99 ‘It is exactly the same,’ says the protoplasmist, ‘on the higher planes of man's being.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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