signaturist

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noun

A holder of the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.

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Meanings

nounsignaturist (plural signaturists)

plural signaturists

  1. obsoleteA holder of the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.

    Signaturists have somewhat advanced it; who seldom omitting what ancients delivered, drawing into inference received distinctions of sex[…]

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From signature + -ist.

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signaturist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signaturist

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “signaturist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/signaturist.

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