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Definition of Theist
1. Adjective. Of or relating to theism.
Partainyms: Theism, Theism, Theism
Derivative terms: Theism, Theism
2. Noun. One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.
Specialized synonyms: Polytheist
Derivative terms: Theism, Theistical
Definition of Theist
1. n. One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.
Definition of Theist
1. Noun. One who believes in the existence of a god; ''especially'', one who believes in a personal god, especially in a version of the Abrahamic deity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Theist
1. one who believes in the existence of a god [n -S] : THEISTIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theist
Literary usage of Theist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"What is a true theist? It is he who says to God— " I adore and I serve you;" it
is he ... theist. THE theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a ..."
2. Religion as Credible Doctrine: A Study of the Fundamental Difficulty by William Hurrell Mallock (1903)
"Every one of theism utterly these aspects or attributes of God is for the theist
useless for the r purposes of the just as essential as the other. ..."
3. Religion as Credible Doctrine: A Study of the Fundamental Difficulty by William Hurrell Mallock (1903)
"Every one of theism utterly these aspects or attributes of God is for the theist
useless for thp _ * purposes of the just as essential as the other. ..."
4. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1871)
"Ho calls himself a Christian theist, and nowhere denies the supernatural character
of external revelation. His adversaries attributed to him many indirect ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... though carrying more the semblance and disguise of a theist, than other
Atheists, in that he attributes a kind of life to matter. ..."
6. Life of Adam Smith by John Rae (1895)
"... which the Bishop ought in fairness to have consulted, show him to have been
a theist, and there is some ground for thinking that he believed Hume, ..."
7. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... did interpret his philosophy one way, some another ; and that he is sometimes
represented as a theist, and sometimes again as a downright Atheist. ..."
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