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thinker|ˈθɪŋkə(r)|
[f. think v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who thinks.
a. gen. A person or being engaged in thinking, or having the power to think; also, one who thinks out or devises something.
c1440Promp. Parv. 490/2 Thenkare, cogitator, pensator. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xii. 73 Noysome onely vnto the thynker. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. §2. 761 The Democriticks and Epicureans did indeed suppose all humane cogitations to be caused..by the incursion of corporeal atoms upon the thinker. 1841Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 208 He stands forth..as the thinker, the inventor, the actor of the scene. 1879J. Cook Lect. Conscience vi, The universe exhibits thought. There cannot be thought without a thinker.
b. with qualifying adj.: One who thinks in the way expressed by the adj.; with commendatory words (e.g. able, deep, original, etc.) often practically coinciding with next sense.
c1698Locke Cond. Underst. §4 You may as well hope to make a good..Musician..by a Lecture..in the Arts of Musick..as a coherent Thinker, or strict Reasoner, by a Set of Rules. 1703Atterbury Serm. (1734) IV. iv. 114 He was able..to delude a superficial Thinker with his new Terms and Reasonings. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 227 Lloyd..was an original thinker, rather than the collector of the opinions of others. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. ix. 300 Two of the ablest thinkers whom America has yet produced. 1903Church Times 11 Dec. 749/3 Mr. Spencer showed another weakness of the abstract Thinker.
c. spec. One who has special or well-trained powers of thought, esp. abstract thought; a person of skilled or powerful mind; also, one who devotes himself to thinking, as distinguished from action or practical affairs.
1830Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 128 Neither is his [Jeffrey's] arguing like that of a thinker, but of the advocate. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 20 English thinkers aspired to know, or dared to doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and to believe. 1880E. White Cert. Relig. 30 Not one of them makes the slightest pretension to be a scholar or a thinker.
2. Theatr. colloq. An actor who plays in ‘thinking parts’ (see thinking vbl. n. 3).
1886Stage Gossip 70 The gentlemen who play the most subordinate parts are..called ‘thinkers’ on account of their having little or nothing to say and lots of time wherein to think.
3. nonce-use. That which thinks; thinking organ or faculty; mind.
1835A. F. Tytler Mary & Fl. i. 6 What should we do about our thinkers? would one thinker do for two Tongues? 1883J. Parker Tyne Ch. 279 ‘If God did not intend I should think, why did He give me a ‘thinker’?’ Probably a more childish inquiry was never made by a full-grown man. 1899Miss A. Robertson in Educat. Rev. Aug., So this unnecessary ‘finger accuracy’ is really the result of a sluggish unwillingness to use one's ‘thinker’. |