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One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

to a council; one who gives an opinion. [Obs.] I will in three months be an expert counsilist. Milton.

One versed in criminal law. [R.]

One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.

Pertaining to a court.

A cycler.

A performer upon cymbals.

A writer of dactylic verse.

One imbued with a denominational spirit. The Century.

One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.

A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

A journalist. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A droll. [R.] Glanvill.

One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality. Dualistic system or theory (Chem.), the theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or e…

One who fights in single combat. [Written also duellist.] A duelist . . . always values himself upon his courage, his sense of honor, his fidelity and friendship. Hume.

Pertaining to electro-ballistics.

The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.

workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work. [Written also enameller, enamellist.]