Obsolesc. [f. L. contemplāt- (see CONTEMPLATE) + -IST.] A person devoted to contemplation or meditation; a contemplator.
1669. Woodhead, St. Teresa, I. Pref. (1671), 35. She exhorts the highest Contemplatists.
1762. J. Cunningham (title), The Contemplatist; a Night Piece.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., viii. 202. To reconcile the contemplatist to the want of those enjoyments which are to be obtained only by toil.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIII. 697. The one individual self-contemplatist.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. vi. 222. The contemplatist regards the kingdom of heaven as internal, and sees in the history of souls a continual day of judgment.
