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mentalist|ˈmɛntəlɪst|
[f. mental a.1 + -ist.]
1. rare. In nonce-uses:
a. One whose tastes are for mental rather than for material pleasures.
b. One whose artistic aim is the expression of thought.
1790C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 75 The mentalist, whose enjoyments depend more on those delights, which are adapted to soothe his imagination,..will find [etc.]. 1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 278 A purpose which is distinct both from that of the mentalists and the materialists of the [sc. painting] art.
2. One who maintains the doctrine of ‘mentalism’. Also attrib. or as adj.
a1900[see mentalism 2]. 1927B. Russell Outl. Philos. xxvii. 303 Idealists in the technical sense, or mentalists, as Dr. Broad more appropriately calls them. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. ix. 142 For the mentalist, language is the expression of ideas, feelings, or volition. 1966Philos. XLI. 141 We must give a sense to this mentalist and substance vocabulary. 1972Language XLVIII. 418 A mentalist tradition more recent than the ‘Cartesian’. |