pyramidologistn.
/ˌpɪrəmᵻˈdɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌpɪrəməˈdɑlədʒəst/ A person who believes in the occult or religious significance of the Egyptian pyramids, esp. that of the Great Pyramid. Cf. pyramidology n.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > pyramidology > one skilled in
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by symbols, letters, figures, etc. > [noun] > by the measurements of the Great Pyramid > one skilled in
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1891 Amer. Naturalist 25 470 The man who claimed that the Great Lakes are drained by an underground channel into the Mississippi River;..the crowd of ‘pyramidologists’,—all were soon dismissed in short order.
1953 Sci. Monthly July 34 Your true pi-man, by the way, is rarely a Simple Simon: as like as not he will also be a pyramidologist, or a perpetual motioner, or a carrots-and-sex regimer, or a flat-earther.
1974 Nature 2 Aug. 448/1 Like the pyramidologists he clearly believes that man should be very alert to the hidden meanings buried in the depths of what appear to be fairly straight forward objects or events.
1992 G. Hancock Sign & Seal iv. xii. 310 On the other side stood the pyramidologists—an apocalyptic tribe who pretended to find all manner of prophecies and signs in virtually every dimension of the immense structure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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