vitalist
- a word derived from vitalism.
Example Sentences
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Our Lord Don Quixote is the prototype of the vitalist whose faith is based upon uncertainty, and Sancho is the prototype of the rationalist who doubts his own reason.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
Anaximenes, a vitalist, 286; his first principle air, 287.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin, a scientific vitalist, 106; his "biotic energy," 106-113, 145, 146.Morgan,
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
"New-born specks of living matter" is language that a vitalist might possibly use by sheer inadvertence; but no avowed materialist, like Professor Bastian, should trip in this definitional way.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
Could any vitalist, or Bergsonian idealist have stated his case better?
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
