schemist

English

Etymology

scheme +‎ -ist

Noun

schemist (plural schemists)

  1. A schemer.
    • 1730, Daniel Waterland, Supplement to The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments Considered:
      Baron Puffendorf observed well of those independent schemists
  2. A proponent of a scheme or system.
  3. (obsolete) An astrologer.

References

“schemist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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