Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who specializes or is skilled in metaphysics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in the science of metaphysics.
- noun One who practises the mind-cure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is versed in metaphysics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun philosophy A philosopher who
specializes in thescholarly study ofmetaphysics .
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Examples
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Furthermore, anyone who ever ponders the very meaning of life could be called a metaphysician, at least in their moment of pondering.
Manifesting Change Mike Dooley 2010
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Schoolmen to go outside the lines of strict ecclesiastical tradition and learn, not only from Aristotle, who was now beginning to be known as a metaphysician and a psychologist, but also from the Arabians and the Jews, whose works had begun to penetrate in Latin translations into the schools of Christian Europe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The ideal of the metaphysician is the ideal of the animal.
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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The audience hazard the same word "metaphysician" as the answer, but are informed that they are wrong -- the word now represented having only three syllables, and they ultimately discover that the word is "metaphor" (met afore).
Entertainments for Home, Church and School Frederica Seeger
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"A metaphysician is a sort of philosopher, partly visionary and partly sceptical, who sees what is concealed from all others.
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Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the life and achievements of women in science and technology through blogging in the name of Ada Byron – Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron, analyst, metaphysician, the founder of scientific computing, and The Enchantress of Numbers.
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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Whereat he would laugh, and his arms would leap out to me, and he would call me his sweet metaphysician; and the tiredness would pass out of his eyes, and into them would flood the happy love-light that was in itself a new and sufficient advertisement of his immortality.
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God; and when he called me his sweet metaphysician, I called him my immortal materialist.
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Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the life and achievements of women in science and technology through blogging in the name of Ada Byron – Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron, analyst, metaphysician, the founder of scientific computing, and The Enchantress of Numbers.
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Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the life and achievements of women in science and technology through blogging in the name of Ada Byron – Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron, analyst, metaphysician, the founder of scientific computing, and The Enchantress of Numbers.
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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