Definition of "metaphysician" [met•a•phy•si•cian]

• One who specializes or is skilled in metaphysics. (noun)

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• "Furthermore, anyone who ever ponders the very meaning of life could be called a metaphysician, at least in their moment of pondering."
• "Schoolmen to go outside the lines of strict ecclesiastical tradition and learn, not only from Aristotle, who was now beginning to be known as a metaphysician and a psychologist, but also from the Arabians and the Jews, whose works had begun to penetrate in Latin translations into the schools of Christian Europe."
• "The ideal of the metaphysician is the ideal of the animal."