† temporistn.
Obsolete.
A temporizer, a time-server.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer
Jack of both sides1554
mongrela1555
timeling1554
temporizer1555
time-taker1576
politique1581
time-server1583
time-pleaser1590
time observer1594
temporist1596
please-time1606
timist1614
timorist?1623
trimmer1682
Vicar of Bray1725
timer1842
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N3 Heilding Dicke..is a temporist that hath faith inough for all Religions.
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i Why, turne a temporist, row with the tide, Pursew the cut, the fashion of the age.
1650–66 G. Wharton Poems in Wks. (1683) 333 Touch me not, Traytor!.. I am no Temporist.
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