realist

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RE'ALIST, noun A scholastic philosopher, who maintains that things and not words, are the objects of dialectics; opposed to nominal or nominalist. RE'AL, noun A small Spanish coin of the value of forty maravedis; but its value is different in different provinces, being from five or six to ten cents, or six pence sterling. It is sometimes written rial.
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