metaphysician

As a scholar and a critic, a metaphysician and a theologian, his name stands high among the first writers of the age.

It was in no placid temper, I say, that the metaphysician drew up his chair to its customary station by the hearth.

I might here—if it so pleased me—dilate upon the matter of habiliment, and other mere circumstances of the external metaphysician.

But the Christian Gospel is little disposed to waive its imperious claims from fear of the metaphysician or the sentimentalist.

This is a problem that can no doubt embarrass the metaphysician, but not the transcendental philosopher.