energistn.
/ˈɛnədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˈɛnərdʒəst/ΘΚΠ
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1804 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 349 Want of dignity in the mode of chastising the absurdities of the Energists.
2. An advocate or proponent of energism (in either sense).
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1898 Jrnl. Proc. & Addr. National Educ. Assoc. U.S. 178 In the general doctrine of values of the ultimately good,..we should have to range ourselves in the camp either of Hedonists or of Energists, if indeed there be no middle ground.
1904 Acad. & Lit. 12 Mar. 277/2 In the sense that we must refer all phenomena to energy we are all energists nowadays.
1914 T. De Laguna Introd. Sci. Ethics 408 Our quarrel with the ancient energists rests upon the fact that we no longer conceive of life as the activity of a certain given set of faculties.
1966 Anthropol. Q. 39 91 Between the [idealists and materialists]..stand the energists, neither flesh nor fowl, for whom Energy has become a demon attached to everything and nothing.
2009 J. K. Fink Physical Chem. in Depth xi. 320 At the end of the 19th century, the scientific world was divided into the energists and into the atomists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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