Obs. [f. as prec. + -IST: cf. TEMPORIZE v.] A temporizer, a time-server.
1596. Nashe, Saffron-Walden, Wks. (Grosart), III. 123. Heilding Dicke … is a temporist that hath faith inough for all Religions.
1607. Marston, What you will, II. i. Why, turne a temporist, row with the tide, Pursew the cut, the fashion of the age.
1650–66. Wharton, Poems, Wks. (1683), 333. Touch me not, Traytor!… I am no Temporist.
