The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speculatist
Speculatist \Spec"u*la*tist\ (sp[e^]k"[-u]*l[.a]*t[i^]st), n. One who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist.
The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume.
--V. Knox.
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speculatist
n. One who speculates; a theorist.
Usage examples of "speculatist".
But though he had, as we have said, formed his morals on the Platonic model, yet he perfectly agreed with the opinion of Aristotle, in considering that great man rather in the quality of a philosopher or a speculatist, than as a legislator.
There cannot, in nature, in theory, nor even in common sense, be a doubt of their equal right: but disquisitions on this point will remain rather curious than important, till the speculatist can superinduce to the abstract truth of the position some proof of its practicability.