Definition of Anomalist

1. Noun. Someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases.

Generic synonyms: Intellect, Intellectual
Derivative terms: Anomaly, Anomaly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anomalist

anointment
anointments
anoints
anole
anoles
anolis
anolyte
anolytes
anomal
anomalad
anomalies
anomaliped
anomalipede
anomalism
anomalisms
anomalist (current term)
anomalistic
anomalistic month
anomalistic year
anomalistical
anomalistically
anomalocaridid
anomalocaridids
anomaloflorous
anomalops
anomalopteryx
anomaloscope
anomalous
anomalous atrioventricular excitation
anomalous communication

Literary usage of Anomalist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Introduction to the Science of Language by Archibald Henry Sayce (1880)
"That a formal grammar, which implies an enunciation of general rules as well as of the exceptions to them, should have been the work of an anomalist rather ..."

2. A History of Classical Scholarship by John Edwin Sandys (1906)
"In speech, it is urged by the anomalist, there is no rule ... If analogy is not universal, argues the anomalist, is no such thing as true analogy. ..."

3. Fragments and specimens of early Latin by John Wordsworth (1874)
"Steinthal remarks that this concedes all that the anomalist party require ... etc. is upset by the anomalist argument that a blackamoor does not cease to be ..."

4. Power Media Selects: The Nation's Most Influential Media Elite by Broadcast Interview Source (1999)
"The anomalist PO Box 577 Phone: Jefferson Valley, NY 10535 World Wide Web: www.anomalist.com A publication that explores the paranormal--the mysteries of ..."

5. Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen by Akademie der Wissentschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Göttingen), Akademie der Wissenschaften (Getynga). (1908)
"44 spricht der anomalist. Er eifert erbittert gegen die Analo- gisten, ... Aehnlich § 53, auch § 49—61 spricht noch immer der anomalist in >negant«. ..."

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