Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds the doctrine of the reality of empty spaces in nature: opposed to plenist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum; -- opposed to
plenist .
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- noun One who holds the
doctrine that thespace between the bodies of theuniverse , or themolecules andatoms ofmatter , is avacuum .
Etymologies
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Compare French vacuiste.
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Examples
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However, it appeared in print only in 1655, and by that time Hobbes had aban - doned the vacuist position for belief in an all-pervading aether, probably because such a medium greatly facili - tated Hobbes 'mechanistic explanations of various forces in nature.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968
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