rare. [f. EQUAL + -IST.] One who asserts the equality of certain (contextually indicated) persons or things.
1661. G. Rust, Origen’s Opin., in Phenix (1721), I. 13. We can find nothing in them (according to the Hypothesis of the Equalists) why one [Hypostasis] should be call’d Father or Son rather than another.
1880. P. Greg, Across Zodiac, I. 133. The Equalists were driven from one untenable point to another.
