rare. [f. SYMPATHY + -IST.] One who sympathizes, a sympathizer.
c. 1819. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 220. The … consciousness … of human auditors—of flesh and blood sympathists—acts as a support and a stimulation.
1853. Daily Constitutionalist & Republic, 10 Sept., 2/4. She [Madame Adolphe] calls herself a Sympathist; but let her be Sympathist, Phrenologist or Physiognomist, she seems to be successful in describing the various characters of those who call on her.
1897. Chicago Advance, 4 Feb., 154/1. Nature … is a natural sympathist.
