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syncretist|ˈsɪŋkrɪtɪst|
[f. prec.: see -ist. Cf. F. syncrétiste.]
One who practises or favours syncretism; one who attempts to unite diverse beliefs, etc.; spec. = Calixtin 2. Also attrib.
1758A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. xv. ii. i. §5 margin, The Platonic Syncretists. 1764Ibid. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. i. §20 The Syncretists..used their warmest endeavours to promote union and concord among Christians. 1826C. Butler Life of Grotius xii. 201 The projects of religious pacification did not cease with Grotius... One description of persons, who engaged in this design, was denominated Syncretists, or Calixtines. 1890P. H. Hunter After the Exile i. ix. 181 Darius Hystaspes was not a syncretist of the type of Cyrus. 1893Tablet 14 Jan. 61 A syncretist scholastic of the earlier part of the seventeenth century. |