释义 |
anomalist rare.|əˈnɒməlɪst| [mod. f. as prec. + -ist. (Farrar takes it from Ger. of Lersch.)] One who held that language was purely conventional or arbitrary in its origin, or without any natural analogy between names and the things named.
1860Farrar Orig. Lang. i. 7 Those who leaned to the conventional origin of language, were styled Anomalists. 1865― Chapt. Lang. 109 The Analogists who argued for the natural origin of language against the Anomalists. |