transcendentalistn.

1803 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 267 We will admit to the transcendentalist his solitary noumenon, and its separate functions.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 115 To a Transcendentalist, Matter has an existence, but only as a Phenomenon.

1840 Boston Q. Rev. July 270 The men who are affected by it [the new movement] are called by their opponents, Transcendentalists.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 32 Transcendentalist as he was by nature, so much so as to be in danger of lapsing into an oriental mysticism.

1879 R. H. Hutton Mem. in W. Bagehot Lit. Stud. I. p. xxviii A thorough transcendentalist, by which I mean one who could never doubt that there was a real foundation of the universe distinct from the outward show of its superficial qualities, and that the substance is never exhaustively expressed in these qualities.

1882 Athenæum 17 June 767/1 Miss Peabody..was prominent in the old transcendentalist movement.

1892 Monist 2 265 If a philosophy denies the existence of transcendentalistic thought-entities or of any such things in themselves, which serve as cement to combine the disjecta membra of their world conception, it is generally declared to lead straight on to nihilism.