projectionistn.adj.

1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 601 The projectionist may maintain that we cognize because we attend and react.

1996 K. Nielsen Naturalism without Foundations xv. 490 Marxians..are also projectionists about religious belief. But their projectionism is distinct from their account of the ideological functions of religion.

1919 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 Mar. 24/2 [The] Assistant Manager and Chief Projectionist of the Palace Amusement Company, Kingston, is now here to supervise the ten days' motion picture show.

1922 A. C. Lescarboura Cinema Handbk. vii. 285 One reel must serve for a large number of projectionists.

1938 Times 23 May 11/1 A suggestion that the cinema projectionists' dispute in London and the home counties might be extended.

1969 B. Patten Notes to Hurrying Man 14 This is the projectionist's nightmare: A bird finds its way into the cinema..smashes into a screen.

1985 D. Dunn Elegies 35 The cinema..Is managed by a sour projectionist In love with Myrna Loy.

2001 D. Mitchell Number 9 Dream 28 A loud bang goes off in the projectionist's room and I hunker down to hide.

1933 Jrnl. Philos. 30 327 Mead objects to the literally projectionist view of perception..; why does he adopt a literally projectionist view of memory?

1988 B. Hebblethwaite Ocean of Truth iii. 51 In Wittgenstein's case, I do not think that a purely interiorised, projectionist interpretation of religions holds.

1996 N. Smart Dimensions of Sacred iv. 177 There is no more reason in the case of religion than anywhere else to adopt a reductionist or projectionist stance.