[f. SYNTHETIC SYNTHETIZE: see -IST.] = SYNTHESIST.
1848. Gilfillan, in Tait’s Mag., XV. 519. Milton is the synthetist, Dante the analyst of Hell.
1873. Hamerton, Th. about Art, xii. 167. Synthetists find continual pleasure in observing the relations of things, but from their largeness of range they constantly miss minute truths.
