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Definition of Somatist
1. n. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.
Definition of Somatist
1. Noun. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Somatist
1. an adherent of somatism [n -S] - See also: somatism
Medical Definition of Somatist
1. One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatist
Literary usage of Somatist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"somatist.—1. One who admits the existence of corporeal or material beings only.
2. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"For the somatist and the mechanist, the human body was nothing but hormones and
reflexes; for the vitalist there were only symbols. ..."
3. The Chicago Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1875)
"Dr. Dickson, like perhaps a great majority of his co-workers in this department,
is clearly a somatist, regarding every manifestation of mental disorder as ..."
4. Gooch on Some of the Most Important Diseases Peculiar to Women: With Other by Robert Gooch (1859)
"The battle between somatist and Spiritualist is an idle strife. The whole theory
of morals is based on the postulate, that the mind is susceptible of change ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1868)
"Both writers, in the first place, agree in this, that they belong to the somatist
school of psychologists, as opposed to the spiritualist. ..."
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