visionistn.
/ˈvɪʒn̩ɪst/, /ˈvɪʒənɪst/, U.S. /ˈvɪʒənəst/ 1. One who has, or professes to have, visions; a professed visionary.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > a prophet or seer
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1665 J. Spencer Disc. Vulgar Prophecies 43 The many gross fallacies put, even upon wise men, by such frequent Visionists.
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 66 We are so far from attaining any certain and real knowledge of Incorporeal Beings (of an acquaintance with which these Visionists [sc. Platonists] do boast).
1700 G. Hickes Let. in S. Pepys Corr. 19 June P.'s Diary (Chandos) 696 I asked this question, to know..whether these Second-Sight folks were Seers or Visionists.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick ii. iii. 318 This Jacob Behemen..was a kind of Visionist. He pretended to see things invisible.
1809 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 28 188 Joanna Southcott, a fanatical visionist of the present day.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 296 The visionist had deeper thoughts and more concealed feelings than these rhapsodical phantoms.
1877 J. A. Chalmers Life Tiyo Soga (1878) xviii. 347 The third class is that of dreamers or visionists, who discover the nature of the disease.
2. One who supports the view that the Biblical account of creation was revealed to the writer in a vision or series of visions.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > Genesis > account of Creation > believer in
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1888 A. Cave Inspiration Old Test. iii. 129 A third class, the Visionists, also maintain the literal character of the days mentioned... In their view the days..refer to..the actual days of the revelation of the creation.
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