cataclysmist
(kætəˈklɪzmɪst)
[f. cataclysm + -ist.]
One who adopts the hypothesis of cataclysms in Geology; a ‘catastrophist’.
| 1887 Athenæum 24 Sept. 410/3 In 1865 the battle of the ‘Uniformitarians’ and ‘Cataclysmists’, ‘Sub-aërialists’ and ‘Marinists’, was still raging. |