metaphysician

[ met-uh-fuh-zish-uhn ]

noun

1. a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.

Word History and Origins

Origin of metaphysician¹

1425–75; late Middle English metaphisicien, probably < Middle French metaphysicien, equivalent to metaphysique metaphysic + -ien -ian

Example Sentences

As a scholar and a critic, a metaphysician and a theologian, his name stands high among the first writers of the age.

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It was in no placid temper, I say, that the metaphysician drew up his chair to its customary station by the hearth.

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I might here—if it so pleased me—dilate upon the matter of habiliment, and other mere circumstances of the external metaphysician.

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But the Christian Gospel is little disposed to waive its imperious claims from fear of the metaphysician or the sentimentalist.

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This is a problem that can no doubt embarrass the metaphysician, but not the transcendental philosopher.

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