signaturist

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English

Etymology

From signature +‎ -ist.

Noun

signaturist (plural signaturists)

  1. (obsolete) One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      Signaturists have somewhat advanced it; who seldom omitting what ancients delivered, drawing into inference received distinctions of sex […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “signaturist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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