[ad. G. substantialist, f. L. substantiālis SUBSTANTIAL: see -IST.]

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  1.  One of a sect of Lutherans in the 16th century who held that original sin was not an accident in human nature but belonged to its substance; a Flacian.

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1657.  Gaule, Sapientia Just., 10. That Original sin is not a vicious accident or adjunct, but is become our very Nature, Essence, and Substance;… so [maintain] the Flaccians, and Substantialists.

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1847.  [see FLACIAN].

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  2.  One who holds a philosophical doctrine of substantialism.

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1797.  in Monthly Mag. (1819), XLVIII. 112. May not the substantialists retort, there can be no sensations or ideas; for, take away all substantial matter,… and what will then have become of ideas?

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1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xvi. (1859), I. 294. Philosophers … are divided into Realists or Substantialists, and into Nihilists or Non-Substantialists.

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1888.  Microcosm (N. Y.), Dec., 6. The conversational powers of the young substantialist [R. Rogers].

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