Pythagoristn.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 223 (margin) Declare your selfe to be a right Pythagorist.

1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. n2 If it be true that Apollonius Tianeus aledgeth, and the Pythagorists perswade, that the soules haue passage from one body to another, me thinks this separation should be rather cause of molest, than myrth to the spirit.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια xxvi. sig. l4^v The sortilegious Pythagorist will suppute for me unlucky numbers.

1687 Stanley's Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) Table sig. Ffffff4 Pythagoreans and Pythagorists, how distinguished. [In text, Pythagorites is used.]

1692 J. Dunton Young-students-libr. 343/2 We must remark, that this expression was us'd amongst the Pythagorists, as may be seen by the last of the golden Verses of Pythagoras, upon which we may consult Hyerocles.

1786 R. Polwhele tr. Theocritus Idyllia II. 28 The absurd mortifications of the Pythagorists.

1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vi. 172 Pythagoras..suited his doctrines to his hearers, calling some Pythagoreans and other [sic] Pythagorists.

1918 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 39 174 Πυθαγοριστής , from πυθαγορίζω..is a Pythagorist or Pythagorizer rather than a Pythagorean... The word was used to ridicule those so-called disciples of the philosopher who imitated merely the outward mode of life of the members of the school, and often exaggerated its peculiarities.

1975 Crit. Inq. 2 11 In the summary view of J. J. C. Smart, for example, one learns that some Pythagorists identified space with air.

1997 T. Finn From Death to Rebirth vii. 83 The less able [than the Pythagoreans] were the ‘Pythagorists’, who continued to manage their own affairs and, in place of a communal life, assembled frequently to pursue common leisure activities.