单词 | routineer |
释义 | routineern. 1. A person who acts according to routine; spec. one who adheres to an established or prescribed way of doing something, without recourse to innovation or imagination (frequently depreciative).In quot. 1792: a person who uses routine as an aid to organization. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > one who acts by routine routineer1792 routiner1809 routinist1846 1792 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 329 The French..are so little routineers in the manufacturing way, that they have not been able to furnish themselves with all that is wanted in Horlogery. 1831 Morning Chron. 4 Feb. (list) The Routineers. 1832 Lady's Bk. Aug. 79/1 The routineers, who order their carriages to the door at eleven o'clock PM, every night between April and July. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 422 He has been a true mystic and not a mere routineer or wand-bearer. 1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism lxx. 340 The civil servant, the judge,..the archbishop, however extraordinary able, gets no more than any routineer of his rank and seniority. 1934 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Stony Limits 123 The routineer Haig, When lack of imagination carried him through. 1977 National Observer (U.S.) 22 Jan. 6/1 The innovator, in both business and the arts, is always to be contrasted..with the routineer. 2007 M. Filler Makers Mod. Archit. iv. 51 Routineers crudely exploiting the master's lessons for financial gain. 2. A medical practitioner who has been trained to practise the more mechanical procedures of medicine, but lacks a deeper understanding of the theories on which these are based; (hence) one that applies treatments mechanically upon the manifestation of certain symptoms, rather than basing treatment on a full diagnosis. Cf. routinier n. 1 Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > others applicator1659 preceptor1803 routinier1806 routineer1812 sub-doctor1843 proceduralist1987 tachyiater- 1812 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 8 253 The destruction of so many seminaries..may cut off many routineers from the practice of medicine, whose situation in society is very important. 1838 London Med. Gaz. 19 May 337/1 In the practice of our profession, we are chiefly routineers; the velocity of modern society hinders us from meditation. 1878 R. Willis Life of Harvey 166 The routineer, with an appropriate salve for every sore. 1915 School & Society 26 June 906/2 There are..physicians in abundance to whose processes the word intellectual can not be properly applied—routineers, to whom a few obvious signs indicate this or that procedure..; but these poorly trained..medical men have no place in modern medicine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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