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partialist|ˈpɑːʃəlɪst|
[f. partial a. + -ist.]
1. gen. A partial, prejudiced, or biased person; one who favours one party or side unduly; a partisan.
1597Daniel Philotas iv. ii, To satisfie The most stiffe partialist that will not see. 1654Vilvain Theol. Treat. iii. 89 Which dissent..cannot..falsify their consent and harmony..as partialists infer. 1788F. Burney Diary 11 Jan., I have not been willing to deny myself the pleasure of letting my equally blind partialists hear. 1892Chicago Advance 22 Dec., How all these things came to be..is not a matter to be settled by partialists.
2. One who holds a partial view or theory; one whose knowledge or outlook is limited.
1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. viii. (1876) 198 Very fitly, therefore, I assert, that every man is a partialist. 1874H. W. Beecher in Chr. World Pulpit VI. 239/1 We are all of us ignorant; we know in part; we are partialists.
3. Theol. = particularist.
1864in Webster. In later Dicts.
Hence partiaˈlistic a., belonging to partialists; characterized by partialism.
1896W. Gladden in Papers Ohio Ch. Hist. Soc. VII. 141 The whole partialistic scheme of a rulership which is for a portion of mankind and against the rest. |