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preterist, n. (a.)|ˈprɛtərɪst|
Also præ-.
[f. preter-, short for preterite + -ist.]
1. One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favour.
1864in Webster; and in later Dicts. 1962V. Nabokov Pale Fire 35 A preterist: one who collects cold nests.
2. Theol.
a. One who holds that the prophecies of the Apocalypse have been already (wholly or in great part) fulfilled.
1843G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) I. p. xviii, To consider certain vituperative prophecies..as already accomplished in the course of the first and second centuries: whence, to commentators of this School, we may fitly apply the name of Preterists. 1854Præterists [see futurist]. 1860Jowett in Ess. & Rev. 371 The Preterists and Futurists..may alike claim the authority of the Book of Daniel, or the Revelation.
b. attrib. or adj. Of or pertaining to preterists.
1878H. G. Guinness End of Age (1880) 93 Preterist, Futurist and Presentist schemes of interpretation. 1904G. Smith Short Hist. Chr. Missions i. iv. 43 A Praeterist, or a Futurist interpretation of its visions. |