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
I guess I’ve always been 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 ridiculed all pretences; those of the physician as well as of the metaphysician.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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