programmist

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English

Etymology

From programme +‎ -ist.

Noun

programmist (plural programmists)

  1. One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
    Synonym: programmatist
    • 1953, Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century:
      But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution […]
    • 1965, Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, volume 2:
      In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist, out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche […]
  2. (music) A composer of program music.
    Synonym: programmatist
    • 1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:
      the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists
    • 1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture, page 901:
      Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.
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