mortalistn.adj.
/ˈmɔːtəlɪst/, /ˈmɔːtl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɔrdələst/ Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
A person who believes that the soul is mortal and dies with the body; an adherent of mortalism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > doctrines concerning the soul > [noun] > mortalism > believer in
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thanatist1902
1646 R. Baillie Anabaptism 99 The Familistick Anabaptists..are not onely for the sleeping of the soul at death, but for its annihilation... At first these mortallists did grant a resurrection of the body,..but now..they deny any resurrection after death, all life either of body or soul.
1759 C. Fleming (title) A defence of the conscious scheme, against that of the Mortalist.
1817 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 83 15 Deists and atheists, immortalists and mortalists.
1926 Mod. Lang. Notes 41 59 The relation of Milton's soul-sleeping doctrine to the teachings of the contemporary sect of mortalists.
1981 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 53 273 The Aristotelian and Platonic conception of autonomous and vitalist natural forces..used by mortalists and pantheists like Overton and Winstanley in the 1640s and 1650s.
B. adj.
That believes the doctrine of mortalism.
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1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances II. cxcv. 47 A Mortalist Deist sinks into an Atheist.
1936 ELH 3 92 The fascinating question of Milton's religious beliefs, his Mortalist heresies, his cabbalistic leanings.
1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vi. 169 Both Anabaptists and Familists sympathised with the ‘mortalist’ doctrine that the soul slept until the Day of Judgement.
1981 New Eng. Q. 54 74 (title) Anne Hutchinson and the mortalist heresy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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