rare. [f. as prec. + -IST.] One who employs a comparative method.
1887. R. T. Hill, in Science, X. 108. The old comparativists … regardless of the inconsistency of English spelling, always inquire, ‘if Arkansas is Arkansaw, why is not Kansas, Kansaw?’
1890. Sat. Rev., 4 Oct., 392/2. This will not wholly do for our comparativist.
