[f. as prec. + -ISM.] Also Equationist [+ -IST.] (See quots.)
1871. W. G. Ward, Ess. Theism (1884), II. 247. The principle of ‘equationism’; the principle … of effecting an ‘equation’ between the strength of his convictions and the amount of proof on which they respectively rest…. The objection of equationists … can be otherwise met.
