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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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MISOGAMIST n.
A hater of marriage.
MONOGAMIST n.
One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith.
NEOGAMIST n.
A person recently married.
NEUROTOMIST n.
One who skilled in or practices neurotomy.
NONCONFORMIST n.
One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
NONUNIFORMIST n.
One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.
OPTIMIST n. 2 definitions
One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.
OPTIMISTIC a. 2 definitions
Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
ORNITHOTOMIST n.
One who is skilled in ornithotomy.
OSTEOTOMIST n.
One skilled in osteotomy.
OVARIOTOMIST n.
One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.
PALINDROMIST n.
A writer of palindromes.
PALMISTER n.
One who practices palmistry Bp. Hall.
PALMISTRY n. 2 definitions
The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. Ascham. Cowper.
PANSPERMATIST; PANSPERMIST n.
A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
PANTOMIMIST n.
An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.
PERMISTION n.
The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [Written also permixtion.]
PESSIMIST n. 2 definitions
One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to Ant: optimist.
PESSIMIST; PESSIMISTIC a.
g to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.
PESSIMISTICAL a.
Pessimistic.
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