α. Middle English gemetrien, Middle English geometrien, Middle English geometryen, 1500s geometryan, 1500s–1600s geometrian.
β. Middle English geometren, Middle English geometreon.
† geometriann.
Obsolete.
A geometer.
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geometrian?c1400
geometrician?1537
surveyor1551
land-meter1582
land-measurer1632
measurer1636
geodesian1650
geometrist1772
geometer1773
arpenteur1789
land-surveyor1792
fieldman1838
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. x. l. 2552 Þise geometriens..ben wont to bryngen in þinges þat þei clepen porismes.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 1201 (MED) Makyng his masouns For to compasse and castyn there deuises, Gemetriens in ther dyuysiouns.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 11908 Many on..Ys nat ther-for A Geometryen Wyth-In a compas..Thogh he konne out the centre fynde.
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. A.ii What causeth geometrians so hyghly enhauncyd?
1635 D. Person Varieties i. 44 If once a Geometrian give up the infallible number of the Miles which the Earth will reach to in compasse.
1662 R. Baxter Mischiefs of Self-ignorance 137 The Geometrian teacheth me to measure spacious grounds: let him rather teach me to measure how much is sufficient for a man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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