vitalist's Usage Examples:

In addition to the vitalistic doctrine of the origin of organic compounds, views based on purely chemical considerations were advanced.

Even that distinguished physiologist Johannes Muller remained a staunch vitalist.

As the prevalence of the conceptions signified and inspired by the word "phlogiston" kept alive ontological notions of disease, so the dissipation of vitalistic conceptions in the field of physics prepared men's minds in pathology for the new views opened by the discoveries of Pasteur on the side of pathogeny, and of J.

He belonged in biology to the vitalistic school of G.

Synonyms:

truster, believer,

Antonyms:

nonreligious person,