vegetarianist

noun

Etymology

From vegetarian + -ist.

  1. derived from vegetābilis — “able to live and grow
  2. derived from vegetable
  3. inherited from vegetable
  4. suffixed as vegetarian — “vegetable + -arian
  5. suffixed as vegetarianist — “vegetarian + ist

Definitions

  1. A proponent of vegetarianism.

    • As “there is never smoke without fire,” so do we see there is some truth in the view of vegetarianists.
    • The Atlanteans are handsome long-lived vegetarianists and eugenists whose society is a utopian communism without money, officials chosen by competitive examination, and careers assigned by a committee of personnel experts.
    • For every vegetarianist who attributes his healthy old age to his diet, we have seen an even older person who gives credit to something else, perhaps the fact that he eats beef every day.
  2. Pertaining to vegetarianism.

    • And he was quite vegetarianist until the age of twenty-one.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA