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metaphysician|mɛtəfɪˈzɪʃən|
[a. F. métaphysicien (14th c.), f. metaphysic: see -ician.]
1. One who is versed in metaphysics.
1597G. Harvey Trimm. Nashe Wks. (Grosart) III. 22 Thoughe (as I am a Cirurgeon) I coulde picke your teeth, for the other stinkinge breath, yet this I durst not meddle with, this hath neede of a metaphisition. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 160 The very essence of them, or immediatè consequens Essentiam (as the Metaphysitians word it), that which is but one degree from their Essence. 1677A. Horneck Gt. Law Consid. iv. (1704) 239 The Metaphysician, that speculates things above sense and nature. 1796Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. 1808 VIII. 57 Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. 1818Byron Juan i. xci, He..turn'd, without perceiving his condition, Like Coleridge, into a metaphysician. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith iv. 145 Metaphysicians, it seems, have always been trying to get at the back of knowledge. 1936A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic i. 33 The metaphysician fails to see this [sc. ‘substance’ fallacy] because he is misled by a superficial grammatical feature of his language. 1956J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis vii. 110 But let us now suppose that the technical statements we are brought up against are the technical statements of metaphysicians. 1958G. J. Warnock Eng. Philos. since 1900 ix. 121 Even if..the conclusion could really be drawn that the metaphysician's employment of language was without significance.
2. One who practises metaphysical healing. Cf. metaphysical a. 3 d.
1881M. B. Eddy Sci. & Health (ed. 3) iii. 151 Metaphysicians can heal the sick, absent from them: space is no obstacle to mind.
Hence metaphyˈsicianism nonce-wd., metaphysical philosophizing.
a1849Poe Imp of Perverse Wks. 1865 I. 353 Phrenology, and in great measure, metaphysicianism have been concocted à priori. ― E. B. Browning ibid. III. 423 The preposterously anomalous metaphysicianism of Coleridge. |