THEOSOPHIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theosophist mean? 

• THEOSOPHIST (noun)
  The noun THEOSOPHIST has 1 sense:

1. a believer in theosophy

  Familiarity information: THEOSOPHIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEOSOPHIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A believer in theosophy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("theosophist" is a kind of...):

believer; worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)

Derivation:

theosophy (a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul)

 Context examples 

Just say the word,—teetotal, vegetarian, aeronaut, theosophist, superman.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There's one fellow—Stevens—a theosophist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them with the strange philosophy that what is is right, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)