Obs. [see -IST.] One who regards or treats men as brutes.
1637. Heywood, Royal King, III. iii. Wks. 1874, VI. 49. To hire one of those bruitists that make no difference between a gentleman and a beggar.
1680. Baxter, Cath. Comm., Pref. A ij b. The Bruitists, who prefer the Bruits, yea, the wildest before Men.
1685. Baxter, Paraph. Acts iv. 1. Such Brutists as the Sadducees.
