microscopistn.
/mʌɪˈkrɒskəpɪst/, U.S. /maɪˈkrɑskəpəst/ A person who uses a microscope or who is skilled in its use.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one skilled in optics > [noun] > in use of instruments
telescopist1821
microscopist1835
micrologist1855
polariscopist1871
stereoscopist1875
microtomist1885
micrologue1892
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 405/2 We find marked discrepancies in the conclusions come to by different microscopists.
1851 J. H. Wythes (title) The microscopist, or a complete manual on the use of the microscope.
1858 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 3) i. ii. 33 The simple hand magnifier, so often employed by microscopists in the preliminary examinations of objects.
1879 Trans. Royal Dublin Soc. 188 Looked into at a convenient angle somewhat similar to that usually adopted by microscopists.
1931 J. A. Thomson in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 210 The work of the early microscopists..disclosing a new world of minutiose life.
1955 Sci. Amer. July 104/1 The art of stage lighting has come a long way since the days of the showman P. T. Barnum and the microscopist Ernst Abbe.
1984 J. W. Deacon Introd. Mod. Mycol. (ed. 2) iii. 43 The early light microscopists observed a body termed the Spitzenkörper in the tips of growing hyphae.
1992 New Scientist 7 Mar. 42/1 Creative microscopists have turned their tips to everything from antiwar slogans to Valentine messages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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