Pret"er*ist (?), n. [Pref. preter- + -ist.]

1.

One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.

2. Theol.

One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled.

Farrar.

 

© Webster 1913.

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