Vacuist vs Vacuate - What's the difference?
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One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.
To empty, to clear out.
* 1861 , W. R. Wilde, On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process'', in ''The Medical Times and Gazette , volume 1, page 488
Vacuist is a related term of vacuate.
As a noun vacuist
is one who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.As a verb vacuate is
to empty, to clear out.vacuist
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(en noun)See also
* plenist (Webster 1913)vacuate
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(vacuat)- Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in oder to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."