paroxysmist Geol.
(ˈpærəksɪzmɪst)
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One who attributes certain phenomena to paroxysms or sudden and violent natural convulsions; a catastrophist.
| 1865 Lubbock Preh. Times xi. 357 The argument of the Paroxysmist would probably be something like the following. |