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One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.

A lover of wine. [R.] Thackeray.

One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists. Sir J. Shore.

One who is original. [R.]

A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.…

A papist. [Obs.] Baxter.

A narrator of parables.

Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

One who is partial. [R.]

A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2. [R.]

One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.

One who sells medicines; an apothecary.

One versed in philately; one who collects postage stamps.

A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.

A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.

The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. [Recent] Carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.

One of the Physoclisti.

An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.

One who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common people; a demagogue. [R.]