programmist

English

Etymology

programme +‎ -ist

Noun

programmist (plural programmists)

1. One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
   • 1953, Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century:

     But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution […]

   • 1965, Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, volume 2:

     In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist, out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche […]

2. (music) A composer of program music.
   • 1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:

     the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists

   • 1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture, page 901:

     Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.