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parallelist|ˈpærəlɛlɪst|
[f. parallel + -ist.]
1. One who draws a parallel or comparison.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Literary Parallels, The parallelist compares Erasmus to ‘a river swelling its waters’. 1810Beresford Bibliosophia, etc. 124 For the purpose of carrying on my business of a Parallelist to the last.
2. An advocate of parallelism. Also attrib. or as adj.
1883Daily News 17 Apr. 5/1 Mr. L— is a strong parallelist. He insists on the hair being dressed, and whatever covering may be put upon the head being made to accord with the parallel lines of the face, and with the line of the eyebrows. 1903C. A. Strong Why Mind has Body i. i. 23 The parallelist hypothesis. Ibid. vii. 126 The two arguments most commonly appealed to by parallelists. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place iii. 124 The orthodox Parallelist..goes much further. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory v. 44 McLennan was essentially a parallelist. ‘All the races of men have had..a development from savagery of the same general character.’ Ibid. 48 Apart from the parallelist faith in universal stages, we note the erroneous idea that totemism generally implies worship. 1950R. Piddington Introd. Social Anthropol. I. i. 27 Obviously, claimed the parallelists, there had been no contact between these peoples, and the similarity in custom must be explained by the operation of similar psychological processes in the two widely separated areas. 1976Progress in Sci. Culture (E. Majorana Centre) Spring 11 It is not in question that the happenings in the cerebral cortex are necessary for the experience of consciousness...However, it must not be naively assumed that these brain events are sufficient for the conscious experiences... This in fact is the parallelist position.
So ˌparalleˈlistic a. [see -istic], relating to or characterized by parallelism.
1868Contemp. Rev. VIII. 441 The parallelistic elucidation is nowhere applied with greater force. 1881Cheyne Proph. Isa. (1884) I. 88 A parallelistic poem. 1904G. S. Fullerton Syst. Metaphysics xxi. 341 He quite wrecks his parallelistic formula. 1934[see interactionism]. 1946Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 52 It was precisely because in the Manual Stout endeavoured to exclude philosophical discussion that his parallelistic conclusion remained, as mere parallelism must..remain, an exasperating mystery. |