[f. prec.: see -IST. Cf. F. syncrétiste.] One who practises or favors syncretism; one who attempts to unite diverse beliefs, etc.; spec. = CALIXTIN 2. Also attrib.
1758. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., Cent. XV. II. i. § 5, margin. The Platonic Syncretists. Ibid. (1764), Cent. XVII. II. II. i. § 20. The Syncretists … used their warmest endeavours to promote union and concord among Christians.
1826. C. Butler, Life of Grotius, xii. 201. The projects of religious pacification did not cease with Grotius…. One description of persons, who engaged in this design, was denominated Syncretists, or Calixtines.
1890. P. H. Hunter, After the Exile, I. ix. 181. Darius Hystaspes was not a syncretist of the type of Cyrus.
1893. Tablet, 14 Jan., 61. A syncretist scholastic of the earlier part of the seventeenth century.
