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preterist


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Preterist  \Pret"er*ist\,  n.  [Pref.  preter-  +  -ist.] 
  1.  One  whose  chief  interest  is  in  the  past;  one  who  regards 
  the  past  with  most  pleasure  or  favor. 
 
  2.  (Theol.)  One  who  believes  the  prophecies  of  the  Apocalypse 
  to  have  been  already  fulfilled.  --Farrar. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  preterist 
  n  :  a  theologian  who  believes  that  the  prophecies  of  the 
  Apocalypse  have  already  been  fulfilled 




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