Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes or constructs a system or systems: generally implying slight contempt.
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Examples
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The disciple of Hegel will hardly become the slave of any other system-maker.
The Sophist 2006
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He is in short a _semeur d'idées-force_ rather than an encyclopaedist or a system-maker.
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In this chapter she shows the strength of a system-maker, in the rest the weaknesses of one; she feels obliged to apply her creed to everything, to illustrate everything by its light, to find unexpected confirmations everywhere, and to manipulate all the history of art, literature, and society, till she conforms them all to her standard.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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No system-maker or formula-builder can account for Shakspere.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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Aquinas, the acutest logician the Church has known; a system-maker, like the great Dominican schoolmen, and their common master and oracle, Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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To be sure, he has "led his ragamuffins where they will be well peppered;" but a system-maker must receive all sorts of proselytes.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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“led his ragamuffins where they will be well peppered;” but a system-maker must receive all sorts of proselytes.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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