parallelist

American  

[par-uh-lel-ist, -luh-list] / ˈpær əˌlɛl ɪst, -lə lɪst /

noun

1. a person who seeks or makes a comparison.

2. an adherent of the metaphysical doctrine of parallelism.

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Etymology

Origin of parallelist

First recorded in 1785–95; parallel + -ist

Example Sentences

Another merchant of gloom was Wall Street Analyst John H. Lewis,* a historical parallelist, who had made his reputation in July 1946 by announcing a bear market just as the market started down.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is called the parallelist theory.

From Project Gutenberg

Let it be understood that I am here pointing out one of the forms, and that the most usual, of the parallelist theory.

From Project Gutenberg

The materialist places the representation after this movement and derives it from the movement; the parallelist places it by the side of the movement and in equivalence to it.

From Project Gutenberg

Being unwilling to bring forth from the molecular movement of the brain the representation of the world, or to superpose the representation on this movement as in the parallelist hypothesis, he has arrived at a theory, very ingenious but rather obscure, which consists in placing the image of the world outside the brain, this latter being reduced to a motor organ which executes the orders of the mind.

From Project Gutenberg