practitionern.

?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe ii. f. xvi^v An other singuler medicyne..a thing experte of all the good practicioners.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. b iv b/2 M. Rabet, Chyrurgian at Paris,..the most experteste practitionere of his time.

1665 J. Tillison in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 36 As is acknowledged by our practitioners in physic.

1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 1 Feb. 1/1 In Physick there are, and have been many happy and lucky Practicioners who knew not so much as the Christ-cross Row.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 The use of the syringe is generally recommended by medical practitioners in deafnesses.

1795 N.-Y. Directory 16 Ben Ali, Ibraham A. practitioner of physic, 24 Broad street.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxvii. 403 A newly painted tenement..which a red lamp, projecting over..the street-door, would have..announced as the residence of a medical practitioner, even if the word ‘Surgery’ had not been inscribed..above the window.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 503 Younger practitioners who have been alarmed at what they regarded as a sign of aneurism.

1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 266/1 Sometimes they come from practitioners of the new healing cults, osteopathy, chiropractic and Christian Science.

1954 H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxxvi. 667 In these days of powerful therapeutic agents it is only too easy for the medical practitioner to adopt penny-in-the-slot rules for their administration.

1988 E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud ii. 80 Freud had argued strongly for years that a personal analysis should be required of every psychoanalytic practitioner.

a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 56^v Consider how long he hathe bene a practicioner: you muste consider what Satan is, what experience he hath, so y^t we are not able to match with him.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xvii. sig. E iv The ingenious Practisioner.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 147 The eight tunes... The tunes (which are also called modi musici) the practitioners do define, to be a rule whereby the melodie of euerie song is directed.

1607 W. Perkins Treat. Mans Imaginations 42 Because they are pratisioners of witchcraft.

1646 W. Eldred (title) The gunners glasse, wherein the diligent practicioner may see his defects, and may..reform and amend all errors that are commonly incident to unskilful gunners.

1704 (title) English dictionary..by Edward Cocker, the late famous practitioner in fair writing and arithmetic.

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 568 In Cimabu, Florence boasts the first native practitioner.

1827 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 36 340 The most experienced practitioners in conscience were puzzled.

1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 70 Hence..the worthlessness of amateurs to cope with practitioners.

1887 Dict. National Biogr. XI. 257/1 He..decided to have the work carried out under direct official supervision, instead of by contracts with civil practitioners, a practice then largely followed in the ordnance survey.

1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 96 Dryden..a poetic practitioner who learned from Jonson.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Apr. 147/2 Very few people understand science and its practitioners.

1987 E. Feinstein Captive Lion iii. 58 He loved to be surrounded by lively and talented practitioners of all the arts.

1576 U. Fulwell Ars Adulandi f. 22^v I shakt of my square cap and my tippet, and became a practicioner of the ciuill law, in the attire of a temporal man.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 386 Sollicitors..the skumme gatherers of sutes,..with all that rabblement of practitioners, who deuour the substance of poore men.

1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George 80 A practitioner in the Parliamentarie Court in that City.

1725 London Gaz. No. 6384/8 John Saunders,..Practitioner of the Law.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 165 The time and study..knowledge and application..are at least equal to what is necessary for the greatest practitioners in law and physick. View more context for this quotation

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxx. 316 The public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued..and numerous other ingenious little machines put in motion, for..the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

1850 H. Melville White-jacket lxxxvi. 399 The Purser..had been a notary, or surrogate, or some sort of cosy chamber practitioner in his time.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. x. 379 A regular practitioner at the Supreme Court of the Hague.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 204/1 Till the year 1859 the practitioners in the High Court of Admiralty were the same as those in the ecclesiastical courts.

1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 933/2 His avowed aim..was to create a mutual understanding between the students and practitioners of the civil law and the common law.

2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 July 36/3 Everyone from solo practitioners to white-shoe law firms is offering help.

1883 M. B. Eddy in Christian Sci. Jrnl. 1 3 The most of our practitioners have plenty to do and many more are needed.

1911 Maclean's Dec. 211/2 Mr. Quimby was a magnetic practitioner.

1958 Lima (Ohio) News 28 Dec. b1/3 After Mr. Fritz's recovery his wife, Sarah, became a practitioner and devoted her future years to the faithful practice of Christian Science.

1999 B. DeGeneres Love, Ellen i. 37 We would call a practitioner for help, but we still used medicine and took vitamins—something devout, dedicated Christian Scientists don't do.