† vacuistn.
Obsolete.
One who maintains the possibility of a vacuum in nature.
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1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xvii. 122 Those spaces which the Vacuists would have to be empty, because they are manifestly devoid of Air, and all the grosser bodies.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 132 The second Hypothesis 's of the Vacuists.
1682 T. Creech in tr. Lucretius De natura rerum Notes 12 Mr. Hobbs adds another Argument, which is of no force against the Vacuists.
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