vacuist

English

Etymology

Compare French vacuiste.

Noun

vacuist (plural vacuists)

  1. (philosophy) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vacuist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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