practician, n. (a.)
(prækˈtɪʃən)
Also 6 -icien, -isian, Sc. -iciane, 7 -itian, (6 praticiane).
[a. obs. F. practicien (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), var. of praticien, f. L. practica practice + -ien, -ian.]
One who practises any art, profession, or occupation; a worker, practitioner; a practical man (as distinguished from a theorist, etc.).
| a 1500 Colkelbie Sow Prohem. 62 Knawing myne vnssufficience To be comprysit praticiane [pr. perticiane] with prudence. 1508 Dunbar Poems iv. 41 In medicyne the most practicianis, Lechis, surrigianis, & phisicianis. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 196 Origenes..wald dite fastar than sevin practicianis might suffice to write. 1558 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. i. 118 Wherefore many practiciens, when they wyll gylte anye woode, laye the bottome or grounde..of yelow. 1609 Douland Ornith. Microl. 4 Twixt Musitians and Practitians, oddes is great. 1678 Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. i. §4 (1699) 5 Yet is generally concluded by the practicians of all Nations, that simplex conatus, or endeavour, is not now punishable by death. 1818 Moore in Mem. (1853) II. 245 He..was a most learned and troublesome practician, as well as theorist, in dialectics. 1899 S. Colvin Lett. Stevenson I. 12 He looked..with the eye of the poet and artist, and not those of the practician and calculator. |
B. adj. or attrib. Given to practical work.
| 1863 N. Brit. Daily Mail 9 Sept., The eminently adaptive and practician character of the Americans goes far to supersede the necessity of tedious drill. |