ideopraxist

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  1. One who is impelled to act by the force of an idea; one who devotes his energies to the carrying out of an idea. [Rare.] He himself, says the Professor, was among the completest Ideologists, at least Ideopraxists: in the Idea … he lived, moved, and fought. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 123.

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  1. from Greek ἰδέα, idea, + πρᾶξις, doing (see praxis), + -ist.
 

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