[f. as prec. + -IST.] An adherent of the system of Fourierism.
1843. Emerson, Lett., in Atlantic Monthly (1892), LXIX. May, 581/2. He thinks himself sure of W. H. Channing as a good Fourierist.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., 386. I was pitched out into the gutter, and, most appropriately you will say, I got up a Radical, a Democrat, a Fourierist,—anything, in short, that shouts ‘Down with Kings, and up with the Sovereign People!’
2. attrib. or adj. Of the Fourierists; Fourieristic.
1870. Athenæum, 5 Feb., 187/3. The Fourierist communities were, with one or two exceptions, equally short-lived.
Hence Fourieristic a., of or pertaining to the Fourierists or to Fourierism.
1883. R. T. Ely, Fr. & Ger. Socialism, 102. All the strictly Fourieristic experiments tried in France thus far have failed.
