transformist
(trɑːnsˈfɔːmɪst, træns-)
[In sense 1, f. transform v. + -ist; in sense 2, a. F. transformiste (Broca, 1867, as in prec.).]
1. One who is occupied in transforming. humorous nonce-use.
| 1799 J. MacGowan Dial. Devils i. 11 As for the barbers, they are a set of transformists, established wholly by my dexterity. |
2. An adherent of transformism. Also attrib. or as adj.
| a 1879 Pusey in Athenæum 19 July 83/1 We think the transformist theories a mere imagination. 1885 [see prec. 2.]. 1890 Pop. Sc. Monthly Dec. 257 Agardh..was a little too earnest a transformist, and believed that certain algæ could become animals. |
Hence transforˈmistic a., of or pertaining to transformism or transformists.
| 1887 Nature 24 Feb. 389/2 In the chapter on the first appearance of man, the various transformistic theories are passed in review. |