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  • noun someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

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  • And think about whether they want to be associated with this sort of bullying, aggressive, rude behaviour - irrespective of the sincerity (or otherwise) of the beliefs held, and the social skills and mental functioning abilities (or otherwise) of the theoriser.

    If you are a conspiracy theorist.... Rachel 2006

  • As a lecturer, a theoriser, and a populariser of his art, Haydon has just claims to grateful remembrance.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • We shall see later that he possesses qualities altogether apart from those of the theoriser or the man of action.

    Sir John French Chisholm, Cecil 1915

  • He makes the young lover an idealistic theoriser about the very things about which he really would have been a sort of mystical materialist.

    George Bernard Shaw 1905

  • As a lecturer, a theoriser, and a populariser of his art, Haydon has just claims to grateful remembrance.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • What a miracle, this trust in a man over-brimming with ideas, the brilliant biological theoriser of "The Evolution of Sex" in the

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • After this strong expression of opinion, it may appear somewhat strange that such a bold theoriser should at once have set himself to construct the largest gas balloon on record.

    The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875

  • This was written in the thirteenth century, and it is scarcely edifying to find four hundred years after this the Jesuit Father Lana, who contrived to make his name live in history as a theoriser in aeronautics, arrogating to himself the bold conception of the English Friar, with certain unfortunate differences, however, which in fairness we must here clearly point out.

    The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875

  • The mystery of the star-depths has had its charm for the mathematician as well as for the poet; for the exact observer as for the most fruitful theoriser; nay, for the man of business as for him whose life is passed in communing with nature.

    Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

  • Darwin was an experimental scientists before he was a theoriser.

    Exiled Preacher Exiled Preacher 2008

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