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analyst|ˈænəlɪst|
[a. Fr. analyste, f. analyser, by form-assoc. w. vbs. in -iser (= L. -īzāre, Gr. -ίζειν, Eng. -ize), which have agent-nouns in -iste (L. -ista, Gr. -ιστης, Eng. -ist). See analyse. Analyser, analyste, were thus formally analogous to latiniser, latiniste.]
One who makes an analysis.
1. A mathematician skilled in modern algebraical geometry. (The only sense in 17–18th c., but now rarely used without qualification.)
1656Hobbes Elem. Philos. iii. xx. Eng. Wks. I. 307 The analyst that can solve these problems without knowing first the length of the arch..shall do more than ordinary geometry is able to perform. 1675Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 212 A learned analyst, and a person fit to labour in discovering canons for the surd roots of equations. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §2 ⁋87 Till the Analyst obtains the true Root. 1841J. R. Young Math. Dissert. Pref. 7 [Berkeley] charged analysts with changing, at the close of the reasoning, the hypothesis upon which that reasoning commenced. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 136 A skill like that of the geometrical analyst.
2. spec. One skilled in chemical analysis; one whose profession it is to ascertain the chemical constitution of substances. (The common use now.)
1800Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 424 The correct analyst ought to be well grounded in general chemical information. 1869Daily News 11 Aug., In the stomach and liver of the child the analyst to whom they were committed found distinct traces of the same poison. 1873Ibid. 7 Nov. 5/5 Public Analyst for Bethnal-green.
3. gen.
[1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Analyst, a person who analyzes a thing, or makes use of the analytical method. (See 1.)] 1809Coleridge Friend i. i. (1867) 4 Some pleasant analyst of taste. 1851H. Spencer Soc. Statics xxii. §3 Unobserved, perhaps, by the many, but sufficiently visible to the analyst. 1859Bucknill Psychol. Shaks. 3 Preeminently the most truthful analyst of human action.
4. Mus. One who carries out analysis (analysis 10) of a musical work.
1885G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 109 The false estimates into which the analyst has been led by the necessity of judging the score by eye instead of by ear. 1893[see strepitous a.].
5. Psychiatry. Short for psychoanalyst.
1914Eder & Moltzer tr. Jung's Theory Psychoanalysis in Psychoanal. Rev. I. 425 Transference to, and dependence upon the analyst could be considered as a sufficient end, with a definite therapeutic effect, if the analyst were in every respect a great personality, capable..to guide the patients. 1920Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. I. 128 The ideal situation for analysis is when someone, otherwise master of himself, is suffering from an inner conflict which he is unable to resolve alone, so that he brings his trouble to the analyst and begs for his help. 1952V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy 55 In moneyed circles with a tinge of culture people talk of ‘my analyst’ as glibly as our grandmothers used to talk of ‘my grocer’.
6. Philos. A practitioner of philosophical analysis (analysis 9 c); an adherent of the analytic movement in philosophy.
1936Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic ii. 52 The majority of those who are commonly supposed to have been great philosophers were primarily not metaphysicians but analysts. 1941Mind L. 166 Metaphysical propositions are indeed nonsense, as the Analysts say, but only if taken literally; and it is unfortunate that many of the Analysts have been only too literal-minded. 1945Mind LIV. 194 Philosophical analysts can do either of two things; they may undertake what one could call case studies or they may engage in the construction of systems. |