Definition of Teleologist

1. Noun. Advocate of teleology.

Generic synonyms: Advocate, Advocator, Exponent, Proponent
Derivative terms: Teleology

Definition of Teleologist

1. n. One versed in teleology.

Definition of Teleologist

1. Noun. one who studies teleology ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Teleologist

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Teleologist

1. One versed in teleology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teleologist

telenurse
telenurses
telenursing
teleo-
teleoanalyses
teleoanalysis
teleocephial
teleogenesis
teleogenetic
teleologic
teleological
teleological argument
teleological arguments
teleologically
teleologies
teleologist (current term)
teleologists
teleology
teleomitosis
teleonomic
teleonomical
teleonomies
teleonomist
teleonomists
teleonomy
teleopeptide
teleoperate
teleoperated

Literary usage of Teleologist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Englander (1884)
"The facts of physical science are the facts of teleology ; but the scientist rises from facts to principles directly, the teleologist rises from the same ..."

2. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1874)
"But the teleologist can say a great deal about them—why the mother should ... But the teleologist can see some use in diversity of being and arrive at some ..."

3. Our Unseen Guest (1920)
"On the other hand, if you are a teleologist, you believe that the universe is the result of an ... With God, says the teleologist, all things are possible. ..."

4. Collected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley (1894)
"So far from being a " teleologist in the fullest sense of the word," we should deny that he is a teleologist in the ordinary sense at all; and we should say ..."

5. What is Adaptation? by Richard Ernest Lloyd (1914)
"Regarding the outlook of teleologist and selectionist as fundamentally the same, there is a great difference between it and another, which may be called ..."

6. Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley (1886)
"So far from being u " teleologist in the ... of the word," we should deny thai he 13 n teleologist in the ordinary sense ul all ; ami we should say that, ..."

7. Darwiniana: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley (1896)
"So far from being a " teleologist in the fullest, sense of the word," we should ... The apparently diverging teachings of the teleologist and of the Morpho- ..."

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