geometriciann.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 54^v A Gemitrician [1483 BL Add. 89074 Geometer], Gemiter.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Radius,..a rodde or yerde, that Geometricians haue to describe lynes.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 47^v Our moderne Geometricians haue of late inuented two other right lines belonging to a Circle called lines Tangent, and lines Secant.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 36 A rhetorician, a grammarian, A painter, nointer, augur, geometrician.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 228 Says Plato, God acts the part of Geometrician, does all things exactly and regularly.

1757 D. Hume Let. 2 July (1932) I. 155 He..is a very profound Geometrician, a Science commonly very incompatible with the lively Imagination of a Poet.

1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain I. p. xix I should have preferred, to the meridian of Paris, the universal meridian proposed by one of the first geometricians of the age [sc. Laplace].

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 306 The object of the geometrician is to generalize the laws of space.

1913 Harvard Theol. Rev. 6 285 The geometrician informs us that the triangle..is not any actual triangle drawn by a human hand, but an abstract triangle drawn by the pure intelligence.

2007 S. Priest Brit. Empiricists (ed. 2) iv. 140 For that line to stand for or represent other lines, what the geometrician proves of that line must hold for those other lines.

?1537 T. Paynell in R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande sig. Aiiii Or any Geometrician aboue Cain, the which taught the Hebrecitians the maner and crafte of weyghtes and measures.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. i. 651 The arte of measuring grounds belongeth to the geometrician then vnto husbandmen.

1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 37 The Sovereign power is not tyed to the judgement of Physitians in the case of a wound, nor of a Geometrician in the measuring of Land.