ethiciann.
/ɛˈθɪʃn/, /ᵻˈθɪʃn/, U.S. /ɛˈθɪʃən/, /ᵻˈθɪʃən/ = ethicist n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > one who studies or is versed in
moral philosopher1499
moralista1586
moral1615
ethician1629
ethicist1838
1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master Pref. 22 Doth not the Ethician worke a good morall action, or vertue, by his rule of Ethickes?
1806 Emerald 7 June 61/2 There indeed the most rigid ethician would apply the injunction, ‘avoid the appearance of evil.’
1851 Ecclesiologist Aug. 290 No one would think of finding fault with..an ethician, because he followed his subject into the broader and more comprehensive science of psychology.
1889 C. Waldstein in Harper's Mag. Feb. 406 Between the priest..and the theoretical ethician..lies the activity in the sphere of sociology and economics of writers like Ruskin.
1953 Studies 42 399 The ultimate quest of the ethician will be to uncover the basic principle in the light of which ethical thought can be exhibited as a single system.
1999 Jrnl. Business Ethics 20 104/2 The employees without jobs did not care. Only the ethicians and the lawyers..were still concerned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1629- to think out
- to think out loud
- to think outside the box
- to think over
- to think proper
- to think scathe of
- to think scorn
- to think scorn of
- to think shame
- to think small
- to think small beer of
- to think so
- to think straight
- to think strange concerning
- to think strange of
- to think strong beer of oneself
- to think sweam
- to think the better of
- to think the same of
- to think the sun shines out of a person
- to think the sun shines out of a person's arse
- to think the sun shines out of a person's backside
- to think the sun shines out of a person's bum
- to think the sun shines out of a person's etc
- to think the unthinkable