ideologist

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Your grandfather was an ideologist, a fool, an old lunatic.

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  1. One who is occupied with ideas or ideals that have no real significance or value; one who indulges in theories or speculations, or fabricates ideal schemes. As to the cultivated and intelligent liberals of 1789, he consigns them with a word to the place where they belong; they are ideologists: in other words, their pretended knowledge is mere drawing-room prejudice and the imagination of the closet. New Princeton Rev., III. 294.
  2. One who advocates the doctrines of ideology. The society of ideologists at Auteuil. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 497.

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  1. = French idéologiste; as ideolog-y + -ist.
 

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