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Definition of Catastrophist
1. n. One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
Definition of Catastrophist
1. Adjective. Of, having, or being a theory that explains a situation by positing one or more catastrophic events, as opposed to gradual changes. ¹
2. Noun. A catastrophist person: a person who subscribes to a catastrophist theory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catastrophist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catastrophist
Literary usage of Catastrophist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"There is an opposite tendency in the mode of maintaining the catastrophist and
the uniformitarian opinions, which depends upon their fundamental principles, ..."
2. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"There is an opposite tendency in the mode of maintaining the catastrophist and
the uniformitarian opinions, which depends upon their fundamental principles, ..."
3. History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the by William Whewell (1858)
"Each new fact adduced by the catastrophist is at first striking and apparently
convincing; but as it becomes familiar, it strikes the imagination less ..."
4. Indications of the Creator: Extracts, Bearing Upon Theology, from the by William Whewell (1845)
"There is an opposite tendency in the mode of maintaining the catastrophist and
the uniformitarian opinions, which depends upon their fundamental principles, ..."
5. Indications of the Creator: Extracts, Bearing Upon Theology, from the by William Whewell (1846)
"5. Uniformitarian Arguments are Negative only.— There is an opposite tendency in
the mode of maintaining the catastrophist and the uniformitarian opinions, ..."
6. Natural Theology: The Arguments of Paley, Brougham, and the Bridgewater by George Ensor (1838)
"Bach new fact adduced by the catastrophist is at first striking and apparently
convincing; but as it becomes familiar, it strikes the imagination less ..."
7. Essays on the Spirit of the Inductive Philosophy, the Unity of Worlds, and by Baden Powell (1855)
"the catastrophist may imagine, it is surely a most unreasonable inference that
these changes were such as to destroy all the species existing during the ..."
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