Hypertext Webster Gateway: "freethinker"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Freethinker \Free"think`er\, n.
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the
authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who
forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation
or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists
and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker,
child. --Addison.
Syn: Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See {Infidel}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
freethinker
n : a person who believes that God created the universe and then
abandoned it [syn: {deist}]
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