systematistn.

1635 T. Laurence 2 Serm. i. 31 That Systematist, in his demonstration of the Trinity, by making it so easy, hath made some of his country perchance beleiue there is none.

1693 E. Wetenhall Antapology 8 I am sure the Systematists ordinarily assign either four or five Differences in the Use of the Word, when attributed to God and to the Creature.

1739 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher II. iv. 94 This Systematist found his first Shift would not do, and therefore he tries to solve the same Difficulty another Way.

1787 R. Kentish Ess. Sea-bathing 50 These systematists, captivated by the speciousness of a system.., have strangely forsaken their own principles.

1826 London Mag. Nov. 299 Now all systematists, to arrive at a general deduction, are allowed to calculate by average.

1873 A. Ransom tr. T. Keim Hist. Jesus of Nazara I. 78 The author has a defined plan, and his grouping of facts and numbers favours the supposition that a word or story has occasionally been removed from its original connection.

1905 M. M. Chase in Buying xvii. 166 The purchasing system..was designed..by Mr. Charles W. Haas, their purchasing agent, well known as a systematist of ability.

1968 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 1 166 Creationist dogma dominated the thinking of systematists and philosophers.

1998 D. Large tr. F. Nietzsche Twilight of Idols 8 I mistrust all systematists [Ger. Systematikern] and avoid them. The will to system is a lack of integrity.

1700 S. Parker 6 Philos. Ess. 46 Your peremptory Systematist boldly distorts Nature.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Systematists, in botany, those authors, whose works in this science are principally employed about the arranging plants into certain orders, classes, or genera.

1821 A. Ure Dict. Chem. at Acid (Ferroprussic) It is a real misfortune to chemical students, when so elaborate a systematist as Dr Thomson so readily scatters around him precipitate and dogmatical judgments.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 356 Under this view system-makers would be divided into two classes—the Methodists and Systematists.

1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. cxi The Fishes, in which province Cuvier has..been the great systematist.

1890 E. R. Lankester Advancem. Sci. ix. 292 The naturalist-traveller and his correlative, the museum curator and systematist.

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male i. 17 The systematist used a single individual or a few individuals as the bases of his description.

2007 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News No. 67. 3/2 Systematists cannot argue with this because land plants are monophyletic.