| 释义 |
deˈclinist nonce-wd.
[f. decline n. + -ist.]
(See quot.)
1831Whewell in Todhunter Acc. Whewell's Writ. (1876) II. 122 [Dr. Brewster] has now chosen to fancy that we are all banded together to oppose his favourite doctrine of the decline of science; though the only professor who has written at all on the subject is Babbage, the leader of the Declinists. |