mortalist

mortalist

English

Etymology

From mortal +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːtəlɪst/

Noun

mortalist (plural mortalists)

1. (now chiefly historical) Someone who believes that the soul is mortal like the body. [from 17th c.]

Adjective

mortalist (comparative more mortalist, superlative most mortalist)

1. (now chiefly historical) Pertaining to this doctrine of mortalism. [from 18th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society (2012), page 164:

     Both Anabaptists and Familists sympathised with the ‘mortalist’ doctrine that the soul slept until the Day of Judgement […]