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neologist|niːˈɒlədʒɪst|
[= F. néologiste: see neology and -ist.]
1. One who invents or uses new words or forms; one who makes innovations in language.
1785J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 135 He called himself a nealogist [sic], or a former of new words. 1814D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. (1867) 481 The vicious neologist, who debases the purity of English diction by affecting new words or phrases. 1827Westm. Rev. VIII. 395 We have an interesting anecdote..inserted in the language of Gravina, as a hint to neologists.
2. One who adopts neologism in theology or religious matters; a rationalist.
1827Eclectic Rev. July 3 They go under the denominations of Rationalists, Neologists, and Anti-supernaturalists. 1833J. H. Newman Arians i. iv. (1876) 104 The Neologists of the present day deny that the miracles took place in the manner related in the sacred record. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome li. (1877) 404 In vain had Rome attempted..to ward off the attacks of the foreign neologists by pretending to interpret her own mythology and ritual.
attrib.1827Eclectic Rev. July 17 Sentiments which will..separate him from the Neologist divines. 1830Pusey Let. in Liddon Life (1893) I. x. 242 The Neologist..solution of miracles. 1864― Lect. Daniel (1876) 185 Neologist interpreters do not hesitate to admit this.
Hence neoloˈgistic, neoloˈgistical adjs.
1827Eclectic Rev. July 18 The most false and dangerous notions..lie at the basis of the Neologistic theory. 1935Mind XLIV. 524 Philosophers who have absorbed a glut of new systems of logistic during the last decade..must face the invention of yet another neologistic language with something like dismay. 1936Theology XXXII. 73 The Catholic is quite sure that there is a God, and that in no neologistic sense. |