biologistn.
/bʌɪˈɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /baɪˈɑlədʒəst/ 1. In early use: a person who writes biographical history. In later use: a person who studies human life and character. Cf. biology n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > biographer
life-writer1611
biographer1644
biographista1661
biologist1686
memorialist1711
Boswell1857
1686 D. Loftus tr. (title) An history of the twofold invention of the cross, whereon our Saviour was crucified. Translated out of an antient Aramaean biologist.
1813 J. F. Stanfield Ess. on Biogr. ii. 57 If the Biologist (should a distinctive term be allowed) come not to his study with the same spirit of impartiality that is required from the Biographer.
1823 G. Wilkins Body & Soul (ed. 3) I. 243 It is upon such occasions that a stranger picks up the opinions entertained of the peculiar talents of the Judges..; painted, to be sure, after the taste of the biologist.
II. In scientific and related use.† 3. A specialist in or practitioner of mesmerism (cf. electrobiology n. 2). Obsolete.
2. An expert or specialist in biology; a student of biology.cell, evolutionary, population biologist: see the first element.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > biology
biologist1829
bioscientist1937
life scientist1944
1829 Lancet 25 Apr. 106/1 A third method soon presented itself to the biologist.
1857 Proc. Royal Soc. 8 591 Interesting advances in Physiology and Pathology are constantly being made which are due to the admirable discoveries of this eminent biologist.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 2 The Biologist has to study both Plants and Animals.
1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion p. lxxii The sportsmen, the musicians, the physicists, the biologists will get their apparatus for the asking as easily as their bread.
1948 W. Pigman Chem. Carbohydrates iii. 104 The universal occurrence of d-ribose in all living cells should make this sugar of the greatest interest to biochemists and biologists.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Mar. 35/5 Biologists report it can be found in most freshwater areas of the world and can grow to 75 pounds.
2007 Science 11 May 820/1 Biologists are uncovering markers for DNA sequences they believe clearly increase the risk of..debilitating ailments.
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the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > mesmerism > mesmerist
mesmerite1785
magnetizer1786
animal magnetist1792
mesmerist1795
mesmerian1802
magnetist1807
mesmerizer1829
hypnotist1843
biologist1853
hypnotizer1883
pathetist1890
1853 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia (new ed.) III. xx. 272 He made a great secret, (like some of our modern biologists and psychologizers) of the magnetic influence, thus exciting a love of the marvelous in his followers.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1876) 553 In the public exhibition of professed Biologists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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