(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:33:59

-ist (?). [Gr. : cf. F. -iste.]

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.

 

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