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opinionist|əʊˈpɪnjənɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
†1. A holder or maintainer of some opinion or doctrine at variance with the general belief (or that of the speaker); a sectary, a faddist. Obs.
1623Cockeram ii, An Opinionist, Sectarie. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 160 The Mahometan Doctours..bended themselves against this late Opinionist. 1661Ray Three Itin. ii. 161 There are few or no sectaries or opinionists among them. 1692T. W. Short Story Antinomians New Eng. Pref. 9 Now you might have seen the Opinionists rising up, and contemptuously turning their backs upon the faithful Pastors of that Church. 1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. (1765) I. 68 This general agreement struck a damp upon the opinionists.
b. Ch. Hist. One of a sect in the 15th century who held that only those Popes who practised voluntary poverty were true vicars of Christ.
1693tr. Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. xix. 219 They were called also Opinionists. 1707Glossogr. Angl. Nova, Opinionists, a Name given in Pope Paul's time, to a Sect that boasted of affected Poverty, and held there could be no Vicar of Christ on earth that did not practice this Vertue.
2. The holder of any specified opinion.
1630T. Westcote Devon (1845) 44 Every hearer and author hath his private opinion, and every opinionist his peculiar judgment and censure. 1647Thomasson Tracts (Br. Mus.) CCCXXXVI. No. 22. 2 Whether have you any general rule of good education..which may be admirable to all opinionists? 1813Southey in Life (1850) IV. 24 In league with all varieties of opinionists. 1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 111 On receiving a damp from a genteel opinionist in poetry. 1845Disraeli Sybil ii. xv, In estimating the accuracy of a political opinion, one should take into consideration the standing of the opinionist.
3. One whose business it is to give a professional opinion.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 289 Hence comes an appropriate branch of made business, the trade of the law-adviser or opinionist; the opinion trade. Ibid. 38, 413. |