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A believer in fetiches. He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.

A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.

A ruler of one division of a heptarchy. [Written also heptarch.]

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homoepathist.]

Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

One who believes in hylopathism.

A lexicographer. [R.] Southey.

One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

One who contends about words.

An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

One who writes on the subject of metals.

One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.

An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

One who writes a monograph.