conventionalistn.
1.
a. A member or supporter of the French Convention of 1792.
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1801 Ann. Reg. 1800 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 39/2 The five hundred, animated by the old conventionalists.
1857 O. A. Brownson Convert xi. 206 The daughter of Joubert the Conventionalist.
b. One who takes part in a convention. U.S.
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1824 W. N. Blane Excursion 171 On their success in getting the votes of two-thirds of the legislature, the Conventionalists assembled at two or three public dinners.
2. One who follows conventional usage.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > in specific style
pictorialist1839
conventionalist1846
polychromatist1854
nudist1866
scholastic1892
archaicist1957
assemblagist1963
eroticist1965
conceptualist1970
orientalist1983
1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang.
1858 Sat. Rev. 5 562/1 Conventionalists..finding the school of painting too free from convention for their taste.
3. Philosophy. An adherent of conventionalism n. 3. Also attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > conventionalism or conventionalist
conventionalist1931
conventionalism1938
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [adjective] > relating to conventionalism
conventionalist1931
1931 M. R. Cohen Reason & Nature iii. 142 The conventionalist may answer that the former type of assumption is preferred.
1931 M. R. Cohen Reason & Nature iii. 142 The conventionalist interpretation given by Mach and Ostwald to the atomic hypothesis.
1962 W. Kneale & M. Kneale Devel. Logic ii. 19 Conventionalists..hold that necessary connexion..is in some sense man-made and arbitrary.
1962 L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning §37 Those so-called conventionalist philosophers like Le Roy who think of science ‘as nothing but a well made language’.
Derivatives
conventionaˈlistic adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [adjective] > of or relating to branches of logic
synthetical1620
metalogical1865
criteriological1936
conventionalistic1948
1948 tr. Chwistek's Limits of Sci. x. 287 The conventionalistic position will now be examined.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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