problematistn.

1668 J. Evelyn Let. 27 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 210 This learned problematist was brother to him, who, preaching at St. Mary's, Oxford, took [as] his text..‘Am I not thine ass?’

1979 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 19 326 The Duke of Milan is a tragedy written by a moral problematist, while Othello is a tragedy written by a poet.

1987 P. A. Alperson What is Music? iii. xiii. 347 (note) Should Bach be described as secular instrumentalist, or as an intellectual problematist?

1998 E. Drew et al. Women, Work & Family in Europe iii. 45 Swedish women..are becoming increasingly legitimated as problematists, coming forward with new demands and even defining the social problems.

1866 Chess Player's Mag. New Ser. 2 133 Mr. Healey, long known to the chess world as one of the most skilful living problematists.

1890 J. Rayner Chess Probl. 9 The multi-theme or multi-form problem..is the one now composed by the German and British schools of problematists.

1902 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily Leader 17 Apr. 7/7 The stranger was a distinguished problematist.

1933 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 18 Jan. f7/3 That intensive chess problematist from Beckley has written again to our headquarters, requesting more problems.

1988 Slavic Rev. 47 578 Nabokov as..chess problematist, maze maker, literary cosmologist, and gnostic seeker.