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Meaning of "modist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MODIST

ˈməʊdɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MODIST

noun
adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Modist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MODIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Modistae

The Modistae were the members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism, active in northern France, Germany, Britain and Denmark in the 13th and 14th centuries. Their influence was felt much less in the southern part of Europe, where the somewhat opposing tradition of the so-called "pedagogical grammar" never lost its preponderance.

Definition of modist in the English dictionary

The definition of modist in the dictionary is a person who adheres to the latest trends or fashion styles.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MODIST

absurdist · baddest · Buddhist · chiropodist · codist · darndest · eldest · jihadist · keyboardist · Methodist · modest · nudist · odist · orthopedist · prejudiced · sadist · sarodist · shouldest · Talmudist · unprejudiced

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MODIST

modifiable · modifiableness · modification · modificative · modificatory · modified · modified-release · modifier · modifies · modify · Modigliani · modillion · modiolar · modioli · modiolus · modish · modishly · modishness · modiste · modius

WORDS THAT END LIKE MODIST

contrabandist · encyclopedist · exodist · faddist · harpsichordist · hymnodist · melodist · monodist · orchardist · orthopaedist · parodist · post-Fordist · propagandist · prosodist · psalmodist · recordist · rhapsodist · sound recordist · spasmodist · threnodist

Synonyms and antonyms of modist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MODIST»

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Christ the 'name' of God: Thomas Aquinas on Naming Christ
At this point that other major development of late medieval linguistic logic comes to the fore: the logical analysis of universal structures of grammar, called ' speculative' or 'modist' grammar5. This grammar is called 'speculative' because it  ...
Henk J. M. Schoot, 1993
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
In 1452 Merton College in Oxford purchased a volume which contained two modist treatises bound with Duns Scotus's commentaries on two of Aristotle's works on logic.35 A copy in Canterbury College, Oxford, in 1501, was bound with a ...
Lotte Hellinga, J. B. Trapp, John Barnard, 1999
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Software Engineering Techniques: Design for Quality
suit fixed a consistent (pessimistic) bias we had found empirically in projects outside the scope of MODIST. 3. Applying the dynamic discretisation algorithm does not force model builders to define node states at the time of creation of the model ...
Krzysztof Sacha, 2006
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Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing
The Art of Scientific Computing. i = 0; j = nextp[0] ; Set properties of the root node. root = node; t[tp[i]].mo = t[tp[j]].mo = t[root].mo = root; drootbranchf n(d, i , j , t [tp [i] ] . nel , t [tp [j] ] . nel , t [tp [i] ] .modist ,t [tp [j] ] .modist) ; t[root] .ldau = tp[i] ; t[root] ...
‎2007
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The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition): A Study of the ...
Although some of the leading proponents of modist logic in mid-century Paris were Averroists in other respects, they and their mendicant contemporaries produced versions of scholastic logic which served as alternatives to terminism during ...
Marcia L. Colish, 1983
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The Development of Modern Logic
The approach to linguistic analysis employed by this school is often called “ modist.” The label reflects the specific use of a threefold series of concepts: “ Modes of being” (modi essendi) in reality were paralleled in language by “modes of ...
Department of Philosophy University of Tampere Leila Haaparanta Professor, Finland, 2009
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Handbook of Semiotics
2.2.4 MODIST SEMIOTICS The theory of the modes of signifying (modi signijicandi) was developed within the ars grammatica of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Among the Modistae, the grammarians who wrote treatises on ...
Winfried Nöth, 1995
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What shall we do with our criminals? Don't create them, a ...
He and his master avowedly imitated Louis XIV., for a long period the master- modist or man-milliner of Europe. Frederick the Great, a modist of a sterner character, whose impress might be perceived in Germany in peasants' dresses long after ...
Thomas Hodgskin, 1857
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Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition: Acts of the ...
But for one thing, subsequent work has thrown much light on the development of grammar before the supposedly modist era, for another it has shown that there never was a period in which all theoretical work in grammar followed "modist" ...
Sten Ebbesen, Russell L. Friedman, 1999
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Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the ...
... complex history: the topic emerging into a separate genre (de modis significandi) in the twelfth century as a vehicle for teaching modist logic, a curious mixture of grammar, linguistics, and metaphysics (one day Heidegger would fall under its ...
Daniel Hobbins, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MODIST»

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Police Log: Drug Possession, Larceny, and More
3:31 p.m. - Samantha Modist, 40, was arrested on Granite Street and charged with larceny over $250, receiving stolen property over $250, ... «Patch.com, Jun 15»
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Dangerous Man's head brewer plans $1M brewery in North Loop
Modist (a play on the word "modify") will take an experimental approach to its beer, Paredes said. "We're not brewing a particular style. We want ... «Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, Jun 15»
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Modist Brewing $750000 Financing. Eric L Paredes Published May …
Modist Brewing, Llc, Limited Liability Company just released form D about $750,000 equity financing. This is a new filing. Modist Brewing was ... «OctaFinance.com, May 15»
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Police Log: Resisting Arrest, Shoplifting, and More
2:09 p.m. - Samantha Modist, 40, of Stoughton, was arrested at Kohl's and charged with her second shoplifting by asportation offense and ... «Patch.com, May 15»
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FTC Wins $10M Settlement From Alleged Spam Text Schemers
In addition to these settlements, the FTC dropped charges against two defendants in the cases, Joshua Greenberg and Scott Modist. «Law360, Oct 14»
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