[f. ATOM + -IST.]

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  1.  One who holds the principles of atomism.

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. City of God, 438. Of the Atomists, some confound all, making bodies of coherent remaynders.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 846. The old Religious Atomists.

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1880.  Cleminshaw, trans. Wurtz’ Atom. The., 27. The atomists of the seventeenth century … had revived … the ancient conception of the Greek philosophers.

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  2.  A student or exponent of the atomic theory. See ATOMIC a. 2.

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1869.  Phillips, Vesuv., x. 270. Symbols of chemical constitution, on which there is still some want of agreement among atomists.

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