programmist

plural programmists

1. One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.

   In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist, out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche[…]

   1965, Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, volume 2

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   But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution[…]

   1953, Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century

   Synonyms: programmatist

2. entertainmentA composer of program music.

   the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists

   1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera

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   Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.

   1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture, page 901

   Synonyms: programmatist