[f. as prec. + -IST. Cf. mod.F. transcendantaliste (Littré).] An adherent of some form of transcendentalism. Also attrib.
1803. Edin. Rev., Jan., 267. We will admit to the transcendentalist his solitary noumenon, and its separate functions.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 75. To a Transcendentalist, Malter has an existence, but only as a Phenomenon.
1840. Boston Q. Rev., 270. The men who are affected by it [the new movement] are called by their opponents, Transcendentalists.
1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 32. Transcendentalist as he was by nature, so much so as to be in danger of lapsing into an oriental mysticism.
1879. R. H. Hutton, in W. Bagehot’s Lit. Stud., Pref. Mem. 28. A thorough transcendentalist, by which I mean one who could never doubt that there was a real foundation of the universe distinct from the outward show of its superficial qualities, and that the substance is never exhaustively expressed in these qualities.
1882. Athenæum, 17 June, 767/1. Miss Peabody … was prominent in the old transcendentalist movement.
Hence Transcendentalistic a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of transcendentalism; belonging to or held by transcendentalists.
1892. Monist, II. 265. If a philosophy denies the existence of transcendentalistic thought-entities or of any such things in themselves, which serve as cement to combine the disjecta membra of their world conception, it is generally declared to lead straight on to nihilism.
