A person who practices or believes in figurism; someone who interprets texts through symbolic or allegorical meanings.
From figurism + -ist (one who practices). Combines figura (Latin for figure/form) with the agent suffix -ist, creating one who engages in figuristic interpretation.
Figurists were like the code-breakers of religion, convinced that every number, name, and story in scripture contained hidden messages — a practice that influenced how people understood texts for centuries.
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