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occasionalist|əˈkeɪʒənəlɪst|
[See -ist.]
†1. An occasional conformist. Obs.
1705Char. of a Smoker in Harl. Misc. (1808) XI. 30 He..makes an interest against the Occasional bill, because he is a sort of an occasionalist himself.
2. One who holds the doctrine of Occasionalism.
1776Burke Corr., Let. to John Bourke (1844) II. 112 Our love to the occasionalist, but not server of occasions. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIV. 234 From Aristotle, down through his scholastic followers, past the occasionalists and pre-established harmonists. 1879Huxley Hume ix. 166 The successors of Descartes either found themselves obliged, with the Occasionalists, to call in the aid of the Deity, or [etc.].
attrib.1891Athenæum 10 Jan. 55/2 It contains..much information about the great Occasionalist thinker [Geulincx].
Hence oˌccasionaˈlistic a., of or pertaining to Occasionalists or Occasionalism.
1884Merz Leibniz i. v. 100 He admits its advance on the..occasionalistic theory of Descartes. |