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timist|ˈtaɪmɪst|
Also 8–9 timeist.
[-ist.]
†1. One who follows or complies with the humour of the time; a time-server. Obs.
a1613Overbury Charac., Timist Wks. (1856) 56 A Timist is a noune adjective of the present tense. He hath no more of a conscience then feare, and his religion is not his but the princes. 1620R. Brathwait Five Senses iii. 33 The dissembling appearances of all obseruing Timists. 1658J. Jones Ovid's Ibis 162 So Timists and Hypocrites change their opinion.
†2. A timepiece, clock. Obs. nonce-use.
1711E. Ward Vulgus Brit. v. 61 To bring the poor condemn'd Machine To th' flaming Pile, and cast therein The costly Timist.
3. One who keeps correct time in music.
1765Goldsm. Ess. Misc. Wks. 1837 I. 203 Neither the one or the other are, by any means, perfect timists. 1774J. Collier, etc. Mus. Trav. (1775) 8 She introduced me to Mr. Dilettanti, a most illustrious timeist. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. ix. 339 The Chinese are known to be excellent timists, and they have several marks for indicating how the time is to be beaten.
4. One who confines his outlook to time, i.e. to the present life. rare.
1801R. Cecil Mem. J. Bacon Wks. 1881 I. 203 Let the whole world be divided into two great sects, viz. Timists and Eternalists.
5. A chronologer. rare.
1897S. J. Humphrey in Chicago Advance 23 Sept. 422/1 The next day (Tuesday, Apr. 25, a.d. 60, for so the timists calculate) they [Paul and his companions] came to Rhodes.
6. One of a sect of Adventists. U.S.
1884Independent Almanac 18 Only a small company [of Adventists], called ‘Timists’, now venture to fix a definite time for the advent.
7. Cricket. One who ‘times’ (well or badly).
1893W. L. Murdoch Cricket 30, I think Lord F― B― must have had all the attributes of a good timist..for..it is written of him..that he had a greater variety of hits than anyone else and they were all along the ground. |