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futurist, n. (a.)|ˈfjuːtjʊərɪst|
[f. future n. + -ist.]
1. Theol.
a. One who believes that the Scripture prophecies, esp. those in the Book of Revelation, are still to be fulfilled in the future.
1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) I. 88 note, Dr. Todd and Mr. Mac-Causland..are alike stanch Antiprotestant Futurists. 1854D. S. Desprez Apocal. Fulfilled i. 2 We have Præterists and Futurists—one class of interpreters believing that the Apocalypse was fulfilled in the first three or four centuries of the Christian æra; another class maintaining that, with the exception of the three first chapters, none of it is fulfilled. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 227.
b. attrib. passing into adj.
1878H. G. Guinness End of Age Pref. (1880) 5 The futurist school of prophetic interpreters. 1881Ch. Times 25 Feb. 121 To give themselves up..to idle futurist speculations.
2. One who has regard to or studies the future; a believer in human progress.
1846in Worcester. 1936G. K. Chesterton Autobiogr. 25 The one thing forbidden to such futurists was Looking Backwards. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Religion vi. 79 The futurists are revolutionaries who consciously and deliberately set out to break with a disintegrating social past in order to create a new society. 1964E. M. Forster in Granta 15 Feb. 9/1 Traction Engine: I shall pass often enough in the future. Punt: A Futurist! Better and better. 1971Observer 10 Jan. 21/7 A man whose name had often been mentioned respectfully by other futurists.
3. [After It. futuristo, F. futuriste.] An adherent of futurism. Also attrib. or as adj.
1911W. J. Locke Clementina Wing xxii. 278 After that they had gone to see the New Futurists. 1914Star 16 Dec. 6/2 Small bullet-proof shields,..painted in cubist patterns in futurist colours. 1915W. H. Wright Mod. Painting 272 The famous Futurist statement that ‘a running horse has not four legs, but twenty’. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 128 Erratic daubs of bright colours laid on after the most approved Futurist style. 1924C. Hamilton Prisoners of Hope 129 The walls..were covered with the raw and confused handiwork of the people who called themselves futurists because they had never been taught how to paint. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 58/1 Trotsky writes superbly on the literary ‘fellow-travellers’, Alexander Blok, and the Futurists in particular. |
