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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who holds the doctrine of the reality of empty spaces in nature: opposed to plenist.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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.

Etymologies

  1. Compare French vacuiste. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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

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