a person who specializes or is versed in metaphysics
Word origin
Fr métaphysicien
metaphysician in American English
(ˌmetəfəˈzɪʃən)
noun
a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories
Also: metaphysicist (ˌmetəˈfɪzəsɪst)
Word origin
[1425–75; late ME metaphisicien, prob. ‹ MF metaphysicien, equiv. to metaphysiquemetaphysic + -ien-ian]This word is first recorded in the period 1425–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: control, deck, primary, recognition, type-ian is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Italian) or persons (Flavian), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (Washingtonian), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc. (Episcopalian; pedestrian). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Victorian) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; theologian)
Examples of 'metaphysician' in a sentence
metaphysician
There's Luman the metaphysician, who gazes at the ceiling while he pontificates.
Clive Barker GALILEE (2001)
But if this is so, how can the metaphysician find a basis for disapproval without turning revisionary?