metaphysician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metaphysician
1425–75; late Middle English metaphisicien, probably < Middle French metaphysicien, equivalent to metaphysique metaphysic + -ien -ian
Example Sentences
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Italo Calvino: I’d need a master metaphysician, storyteller and prestidigitator to make something glittering out of my mostly repetitive and rather beige existence.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020
He was a radical obsessed with both revolution and order, an incorrigible skeptic and an insightful metaphysician.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2019
He describes himself as “a metaphysician disguised as a theoretical physicist.”
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2018
But at his best Dick was a focused and penetrating metaphysician.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2017
He was essayist, journalist, politician, poet, dramatist, metaphysician, philosopher, theologian, divine, critic, expositor, dreamer, soliloquizer; in all eloquent, in all intense.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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