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† humanitian Obs.|-ˈɪʃən|
Also 6 -ician.
[irreg. f. humanity + -an, by association with logician, etc.]
One versed in the ‘humanities’; a classical scholar; = humanist 2.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 40/2 Oliver Eustace, a student of the civill and canon law, a good humanician, and a proper philosopher. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. iii, I have read history, I am a little humanitian. 1606Holland Sueton. Annot. 18 A deep Scholler and great Humanitian as we speake, and whom the Greekes call Philologon. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 103 The said Robertson was an exact Grammarian and Humanitian. |