Obs. rare. [f. as prec. + -AN.] = SYMMETRIST.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. xvi. (1912), 102. Her face was a thought longer then the exacte Symmetrians perhaps would allow.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, V. xvii. 459. Statues … fiue or sixe fathomes high, which these Symmetrians proportioned to the stature of Adam.
1623. Cockeram, I. Simmetrian, a painter or grauer, one that considereth the due proportion of a thing.
1656. [see SYMMETRIST].
