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- noun Plural form of
harmonist .
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Examples
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Corot, he becomes one of the cleverest modern "harmonists".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Yes, I said; but you mean the empirics who are always twisting and torturing the strings of the lyre, and quarrelling about the tempers of the strings; I am referring rather to the Pythagorean harmonists, who are almost equally in error.
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Three classes of harmonists are distinguished by him: — first, the Pythagoreans, whom he proposes to consult as in the previous discussion on music he was to consult
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He awoke with the first rays of rosy morn, and listened to the lovely song of Nature's harmonists, the songsters of the grove.
The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca Hervey Keyes
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Skinner: "The interpretation of yom as aeon, a favourite resource of harmonists of science and revelation, is opposed to the plain sense of the passage and has no warrant in Hebrew usage."
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Chronicles -- have long been the despair of Christian harmonists.
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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The same critic does not hesitate to name Monticelli as one of the great quartet of harmonists, Claude, Turner, Monet being the other three.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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[1] One Evangelist says gall, another myrrh, and on this difference harmonists and their antagonists have spent their time; but surely it is not worth while.
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion James Stalker 1887
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Whether this feast was made now, or not till afterwards, is a point of some importance in the order of events, and not agreed among harmonists.
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On the whole, however, he valued Dean Alford's work very highly, giving him great praise for the candour with which he not unfrequently set the harmonists aside.
The Fair Haven Samuel Butler 1868
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