symbolistn.
/ˈsɪmb(ə)lɪst/, /ˈsɪmbl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈsɪmbələst/ 1. Church History. A person who holds that the elements in the Eucharist are mere symbols of the body and blood of Christ. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > eucharistic doctrines > presence of Christ in communion > [noun] > actual > person denying
sacramentarian1535
sacramentary1538
significatist1580
figurist1587
symbolist1587
adessenarian1744
sacramentarist1828
sacramentalist1840
sacramenter1845
symbolizer1903
1587 T. Rogers Eng. Creede: 2nd Pt. 54 The Symbolists, Figurists, or Significatists..are of opinion that the faithfull receaue nothing but naked and bare signes.
1839 H. H. Milman Life Gibbon v. 144 (note) An amicable compromise between the Symbolists and Anti-Symbolists of Germany.
2.
a. A person who uses symbols, or practises symbolism.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > one who
symbolist1812
symbolizer1854
semioticist1973
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories > adherent of
modernist1703
symbolist1812
romanticist1821
classicist1827
romantic1827
symbolizer1854
archaist1867
realist1868
verist1884
naturalist1888
naturist1892
Teutonist1894
veritist1894
literary theorist1896
neoclassicist1899
social realist1909
futurist1911
postmodernist1914
vorticist1914
postmodern1917
Scythian1923
surrealist1925
populist1930
ultraist1931
socialist-realist1935
lettrist1946
New Negro1953
formalist1955
pre-modernist1962
Scyth1972
dirty realist1987
po-mo1996
1812 R. Southey Omniana I. xxix. 48 The whim of some violent symbolist.
1865 C. Stanford Symbols Christ vii. 183 ‘My dark and cloudy words, they do but hold The truth, as cabinets enclose the gold.’ So did the Puritan symbolist speak.
b. A person who uses written symbols.
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society > communication > writing > writer > writer according to system > [noun] > one who uses written symbols
symbolist1881
1881 J. Venn Symbolic Logic Introd. p. xxxiii Examples which however simple they may seem to a modern symbolist represent a very great advance beyond the syllogism.
c. A person who uses symbolism in art or literature: (a) A painter who aims at symbolizing ideas rather than representing the form or aspect of actual objects; spec. applied to a late nineteenth-century school of painters who used representations of objects and schemes of colour to suggest ideas or states of mind. (b) One of a late nineteenth-century school of French poets who aimed at representing ideas and emotions by indirect suggestion rather than by direct expression, and attached a symbolic meaning to particular objects, words, sounds, etc. (Cf. quots. s.v. symbolism n. 1d). Also attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period
mannerist1695
romanticist1821
trecentist1821
classicist1827
romantic1827
expressionist1850
classicalist1851
Gothicist1861
literalist1862
realist1868
modernist1879
verist1884
classic1885
symbolist1888
decadent1890
veritist1894
neoclassicist1899
neo-romantic1899
renaissancer1899
social realist1909
avant-garde1910
futurist1911
pasticheur1912
Bloomsbury1917
postmodern1917
pre-Romantic1918
Dadaist1919
German expressionist1920
super-realist1925
surrealist1925
New Romantic1930
brutalist1934
socialist-realist1935
avant-gardist1940
New Negro1953
neo-modernist1958
bricoleur1965
popster1965
sound artist1966
performance artist1975
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > symbolism > artist
symbolist1888
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun] > poets of specific schools
bardist1588
laker1814
Lakist1822
Parnassian1872
Scottish Chauceriana1883
metaphysical1887
symbolist1888
imagist1912
Acmeist1913
unanimist1915
simultaneist1923
symboliste1925
ultraist1931
spatialist1934
beat poet1955
Black Mountaineer1965
1888 G. Moore Confessions of Young Man vi. 147 Like a white flag fluttering faintly, Symbolists and Decadents appeared.
1892 Spectator 30 Jan. 168/1 (heading) Art. At the Old Masters. II. [Dialogue between] A Symbolist [and] an Impressionist.
1894 Tablet 27 Jan. 122 Verlaine, and the other French ‘Symbolists’ as they are called, in poetry.
1899 A. Symons (title) The Symbolist Movement in Literature.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 497/1 The Symbolist school..aimed at greater freedom, a less strict prosody, and a more musical poetry.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 16/3 ‘Well, do as you like,’ the symbolist [sc. Boecklin] said, ‘but without a vermilion cow you'll never make a picture of that thing.’
1907 Dublin Rev. Oct. 407 The great Symbolist, Joris Karl Huysmans.
3. A person versed in the study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > science or study of > one versed in
symbolist1839
symbologist1864
1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs Introd. p. lxxxiii The authorities on which the learned symbolist relies.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 4/3 Blake's ‘Jerusalem’..is not easy reading even to a symbolist confident of his key.
Derivatives
symboˈlistic adj. relating to or characteristic of a symbolist (esp. in sense 2c); belonging to or characterized by symbolism.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory
classic1743
classical1784
Alexandrian1803
romantic1812
realistic1829
realista1832
romanticist1831
symbolistic1864
symbolistical1864
neo-romantic1875
naturalistic1876
Alexandrine1877
neoclassical1877
veristic1884
impressionistic1886
impressionary1889
romanticistic1889
sensitivist1891
veritistic1894
Félibrian1908
symbolic1910
vorticist1914
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
postmodernist1926
surrealistic1930
ultraist1931
socialist-realist1935
lettrist1947
social realist1949
social realistic1949
formalist1955
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > symbolist or post-symbolist
symbolistic1864
symbolistical1864
symbolic1910
post-symbolist1927
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Symbolistic, Symbolistical, characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
1903 F. B. Smith How Paris amuses Itself ii. 42 The pensive, long-haired devotees of the symbolistic school.
symboˈlistical adj. = symbolistic adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory
classic1743
classical1784
Alexandrian1803
romantic1812
realistic1829
realista1832
romanticist1831
symbolistic1864
symbolistical1864
neo-romantic1875
naturalistic1876
Alexandrine1877
neoclassical1877
veristic1884
impressionistic1886
impressionary1889
romanticistic1889
sensitivist1891
veritistic1894
Félibrian1908
symbolic1910
vorticist1914
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
postmodernist1926
surrealistic1930
ultraist1931
socialist-realist1935
lettrist1947
social realist1949
social realistic1949
formalist1955
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > symbolist or post-symbolist
symbolistic1864
symbolistical1864
symbolic1910
post-symbolist1927
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Symbolistic, Symbolistical, characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
symboˈlistically adv. in the manner of a symbolist; in the way of symbolism.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adverb] > literary movement, theory, or school
classically1753
realistically1846
symbolistically1912
surrealistically1934
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adverb] > symbolist
symbolistically1912
1912 English Rev. Dec. 86 The scenes..reverting, symbolistically..to the scene started from, where the ‘stranger’ is seen sitting on a bench, scratching the sand with a stick.
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