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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He was a radical obsessed with both revolution and order, an incorrigible skeptic and an insightful metaphysician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2019
But just when things get comfortable, in drops Jay Electronica, hip-hop metaphysician, with some confidently delivered and unusually phrased truisms: “Reality is kinda hard to face/Like actual facts is to flat-earthers.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2018
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
Before such services as he rendered to the cause of man, how all the acquisitions and displays of the scholar and the metaphysician grow pale!
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
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