originistn.
/əˈrɪdʒᵻnɪst/, /əˈrɪdʒn̩ɪst/, U.S. /əˈrɪdʒənəst/ A person concerned with the origin or beginning of things; spec. one who holds a particular view of the origins of life, peoples, races, etc.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > doctrine or study of origins > one who deals in
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1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 380 A Custom bottomed upon the Great Originist, and that account he gives us of the Genesis and Rise of things.
1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 104 The great Originist, Moses.
1927 Glasgow Herald 14 July 4/6 Two rival ‘schools’—those of the Diffusionists and the Independent Originists—make bid for favour [among anthropologists].
1970 S. I. Mintz Hunting of Leviathan 55 Ross called him [sc. Hobbes] an Anthropomorphist, Sabellian, Nestorian, Sadducean, Arabian, Tacian, Manichee, Mohammedan,..Luciferian, Originist, Socinian, and Jew.
1992 Economist (Nexis) 4 Jan. 73 The originists' challenge is not to make a bacterium from scratch, but to reforge a few of the earlier, invisible links.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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