Med. [Cf. prec. and -IST. So F. solidiste.] One who believes in or holds the doctrine of solidism.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXIII. 400/1. The doctrines of the fluidists…, of the vitalists and solidists.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 5. Physicians have distinguished themselves as Humoralists or Solidists.
Hence Solidistic a., of or pertaining to the solidists or their theory.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 517. We nearly always discover that diseases of tissues and organs cause anomalies of the blood (solidistic pathology as opposed to humoralistic pathology).
1889. Lancet, 30 Nov., 1123. The ‘solidistic’ notion of the all-pervading influence of the nervous system.
