Formulist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who exhibits an excessive reliance on, or adherence to, formulae.

    "They have been described with a painfully fastidious detail of petty circumstances by zoological formulists; the causes of these differences have been as carefully avoided, as if man, all-important man, were not a fit object of inquiry […]"

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formalistsabbatarian

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"They have been described with a painfully fastidious detail of petty circumstances by zoological formulists; the causes of these differences have been as carefully avoided, as if man, all-important man, were not a fit object of inquiry […]"

Etymology

From formula + -ist.

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