Schematist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One given to forming schemes; schemer. obsolete
"August 26 1711, Jonathan Swift, letter to William King He never wants a reserve upon any emergency, which would appear desperate to others; and makes little use of those thousand projectors and schematists, who are daily plying him with their visions, but to be thoroughly convinced, by the comparison, that his own notions are the best."
- 2 One who thinks about or develops formal schemata or abstract frameworks.
"What is the scalar extreme to spontaneity? To the schematist it might seem to be inhibition: but clinically —as the manifestations described above suggest — it would seem to be a behavioral complex of compulsive and inhibitory elements."
- 1 Involving schemata or abstract frameworks.
"Was Pokrovsky's view of the differences between history and sociology regarded as more "schematist" than that which was introduced following Stalin's "Observations"?"
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More examples"August 26 1711, Jonathan Swift, letter to William King He never wants a reserve upon any emergency, which would appear desperate to others; and makes little use of those thousand projectors and schematists, who are daily plying him with their visions, but to be thoroughly convinced, by the comparison, that his own notions are the best."
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