Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A practitioner.
- noun One who practises or performs, in distinction from one who theorizes or speculates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
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- noun A
practitioner ; someone whopractises a particularprofession , especiallymedicine .
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- noun someone who practices a learned profession
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Examples
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But Philip, as he frequently said, was preeminently a "practician," wherefore he gently covered the girl with his coat, busied himself with the lantern and, for various reasons, sought to create a general atmosphere of commonplace reality.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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For a practician faced with the task of putting digested slurry to good use, the following tendential observations may be helpful:
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Once more "_Your_ health, Sir HENRY!" that's the Baron's toast (bread not permitted) in honour of the eminent practician who does so much for the health of everybody.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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All operations were performed by the general practician or surgeon.
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He afterwards removed to Philadelphia and continued there as a successful practician for forty-five years.
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Grant, of the Harvard Dental Faculty, has acquired great distinction as a practician and professor of dentistry, having lectured before the Harvard Dental School for a number of years.
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Prior to 1862 we hear nothing of the Negro in the dental profession, but at the close of the war he is remarked as being established as a successful practician of dentistry, born and matured, as it were, in a day.
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"Philosophy can bake no bread, but it can give us God, freedom, and immortality" read the motto -- from Novalis -- on the cover of the _Journal of Speculative Philosophy_, published at Concord in those years, under the editorship of Mr. William T. Harris; but bread must be baked, for even philosophers must eat, and an occasional impatience of the merely ideal may be forgiven in the overworked practician.
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On the other side of the Channel, Pitt, the ablest practician, and
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Implications for practice E.g. a paper in a practician ‟ s journal 3.
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