[f. next: see -IST.] One who uses synthesis, or proceeds by a synthetic method. (Opposed to analyst.)
1863. J. G. Baker, N. Yorksh., 179. The so-called analysts and synthesists of descriptive zoology.
1864. Hamerton, in Fine Arts Q. Rev., May, 238. Synthesists find continual pleasure in observing the relations of things, but from their largeness of range they constantly miss minute truths, nor do they ever see anything so vividly as the analysts see that which they have analysed.
