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logician|ləˈdʒɪʃən|
Forms: 4 logissian, 4–6 logicien, 5 -icion, -ycien, 6 -ecien, -yssion, 6–7 -itian, 6– logician.
[a. F. logicien (13th c.), f. logique logic: see -ician.]
1. A writer on logic; a student of logic.
1382Wyclif Pref. Ep. 66, I holde my pees of gramariens and retorikis, filoferis, geometrers, logissians [1388 logiciens]. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 219 Thei be logiciones ȝiffenge reason of either thynge as Plato was and his folowers. 1474Caxton Chesse 100 Gramariens, logyciens, maysters of lawe. 1530Palsgr. 50 If they be suche as the logiciens call abstractes. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 18 Logicians make three necessary parts or terms in every proposition. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 78 Contradictory, as the logicians speak, to virtue. 1827Whately Logic i. §1 (ed. 2) 22 The logician's object being not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason. 1876Jevons Logic Prim. 7 All people are logicians in some manner or degree.
2. One skilled in reasoning.
1592Greene Disput. 15 Thou art no Logitian, thou canst not reason for thy selfe. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 72 Then wee had not..a subtill Scotus to play the Logician. |