Speculator

Definitions

1. One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
2. One who forms theories; a theorist.
3. One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
4. Synonym of field goal.

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Examples

“a bold and paradoxical speculator”

“[…] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense⟳ is the Judge⟳.”

“For, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, a speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by its nature mortal, and does, in the great majority of cases, actually die⟳ with the body, would have⟳ been burned alive in Smithfield.”

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