[f. ALGEBRA + -IST. As the final a of algebra is no part of the stem, algebrism, algebrist, algebrize, are more correct, as well as easier forms of these three words. Cf. Fr. algébriste, It. and Sp. algebrista.] One versed in algebra.
1673. Phil. Trans., VIII. 6073. A Body of Algebra prepared for the Press by that eminent Algebraist Mr. John Kersey.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. col. 871. He had the Character among the Vertuosi of a very good Algebrest.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iii. § 1 ¶ 80. Letters … used by Algebraists to denote Sums and Differences.
1831. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), I. 468. When the algebraist speaks of multiplying by a negative quantity.
