sb. (a.) [f. as prec. + -IST.] One who believes in the supernatural; an adherent of supernaturalism. Also attrib. or as adj. = next.
1650. Hobbes, De Corp. Pol., 48. The opposition … of supernaturalists … to rational and moral Conversation.
1659. C. Hoole, trans. Comenius’ Vis. World (1672), 207. The Supernaturalist searcheth out the Causes, & Effects of things.
1684. trans. Agrippa’s Van. Arts, i. 8. Supernaturalists use the Conjectures of Naturalists.
1838. Penny Cycl., XI. 198/2. The Orthodox or Supernaturalists.
1884. J. R. Seeley, in Contemp. Rev., Nov., 671. Just at the moment when the supernaturalist theory, standing alone, seemed to have exhausted its influence, and to be involving religion in its own decline, Goethe stood forth as a rapt adorer of the God in Nature.
1893. C. G. Leland, Mem., I. 204. Justinus Kerner, the great German supernaturalist, mystic, and poet.
