or -alist. [f. as prec. + -IST.]

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  1.  One who belongs to an association.

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1851.  S. Judd, Margaret, II. i. (1871), 160. Groups of … industrious associationists.

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1881.  E. Purcell, in Academy, 22 Jan., 56. The wretched Church Associationist is reduced to auricular confession.

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  2.  One who holds the doctrine of associationism.

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1862.  R. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 55. The beautiful … instead of being, as the Associationists affirm, merely a chameleon-like phantasm.

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1882.  Athenæum, 28 Jan., 119/1. Prof. Bain … the last of the Associationists.

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