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ne who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

eists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.

the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. Watts.

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

elieve in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

atic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazlitt.

A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]

Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.

The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.

An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.] Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland.

ho has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See under Laureate.

ition of thought. The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. Sir W. Hamilton. Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets. De Quincey.…

right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker. Do not I know you a favorer Of this new seat Ye are nor sound. Shak.

, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.