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Definition of Abacist

Abacist
Abacist Ab"a*cist ([a^]b"[.a]*s[i^]st), n. [LL abacista, fr. abacus.] One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

Meaning of Abacist from wikipedia

- abacuses and abaci are used as plurals. The user of an abacus is called an abacist. The Sumerian abacus appeared between 2700 and 2300 BC. It held a table...
- Philosophica, 1503. The woodcut shows Arithmetica instructing an algorist and an abacist (inaccurately represented as Boethius and Pythagoras). There was keen competition...
- Algorists vs. abacists, depicted in a sketch from 1508 CE...
- calculation demonstrated in Liber Abaci) remained in conflict with the abacists (traditionalists who continued to use the abacus in conjunction with Roman...
- pious and humble man, a monk, the prior of his sheepfold, a geometer and abacist. The people mourn, the clergy grieve on all sides. The first day of October...