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optician|ɒpˈtɪʃən|
[ad. F. opticien (c 1640 Hatz.-Darm.), f. med.L. optica optics: see -ician.]
1. One versed in optics; an opticist. (So also in Fr.) Now rare or Obs.
1687Death's Vis. (1713) 15 Dr. Cheyne shows from the same Great Optician [Newton] that all Bodies attract the Rayes of Light towards them in Lines perpendicular to their Surfaces. 1738Med. Ess. (ed. 2) IV. 143 Whether Physician, Anatomist, or Optician. 1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 101 Of what description should such persons be—should they be profound opticians or microscopists?
2. A maker of or dealer in optical instruments; spec. one who makes up and dispenses spectacles and corrective lenses (sometimes also testing the eyes and providing a prescription).
1737J. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Gt. Brit., List Offices 254 Officers and Servants attending..the Prince of Wales..Tradesmen..Optician, Nathaniel Adams. 1804Young in Phil. Trans. XCIV. 14 The blue glass sold by the opticians. 1868Lockyer tr. Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 494 That..our modern opticians contrive to admit more light by means of a superior polish imparted to the surfaces of the object glass. Mod. I must go to an optician's to get an eye-glass. 1892Keystone (Philadelphia) June 578/2 Some persons are unkind..enough, after the optician has spent a great deal of time testing their eyes, to ascertain from him the proper number of the glasses they need, and then..go around the corner to some street peddler of spectacles. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 462/1 Opticians make a practice of imposing on their customer..and give as an excuse for the prices charged, ‘that the lenses were ground to order’. 1912L. Laurance Visual Optics p. vii, I have endeavoured to cover..all that is essential for the sight-testing optician. Ibid., No apologies are needed for mentioning some indications of pathological conditions, since a person with defective sight may go to the optician when he should go to the oculist. 1928S. Duke-Elder Practice of Refraction xxiii. 333 The ophthalmologist has no more valuable and essential asset than a reliable optician with whom to co-operate. 1951R. L. Stimson Ophthalmic Dispensing vi. 140 An ophthalmic dispenser's First Commandment is, an optician shall never express an opinion pertaining to a patient's vision or eye health. 1969Which? Feb. 43/1 Ophthalmologist. He is a qualified doctor who has had a further training in eye disease... He will give you a prescription for your spectacles... He will not make up the spectacles... Ophthalmic Opticians are opticians who do sight tests... After giving you a prescription for your spectacles, an Ophthalmic Optician will usually expect to make them up herself. Ibid., A Dispensing Optician does not do sight tests but makes up your spectacles to your prescription, wherever you have got it. 1975Nature 8 May 151/1 It has sometimes been noted by opticians involved in the fitting of contact lenses that the sensitivity of the cornea seems to vary, depending on whether the patient has blue or brown eyes. |