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Someone who practices a learned profession
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practitioner
Word definitions for practitioner in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A practitioner is someone who is qualified or registered to practice a particular occupation, profession, or religion. Practitioners who specialise in a particular area may be referred to as a specialist or advanced practitioner. The medical and social ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who practices a learned profession [syn: practician ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From Practician .] One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. --Crabbe. One who does anything customarily or habitually. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, a hybrid formed from practitian "practitioner" (c.1500, from French practicien , from Late Latin practicus "fit for action," see practice (v.)) on model of parishioner . Johnson has as a secondary sense "One who uses any sly or dangerous arts."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES family practitioner general practitioner medical practitioner nurse practitioner COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE experienced ▪ Sometimes experienced practitioners do not read the conditions sufficiently carefully, ...
Usage examples of practitioner.
The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners.
Often, the leaders and practitioners of absolutist religions were unable to perceive any middle ground or recognize that the truth might draw upon and embrace apparently contradictory doctrines.
In a report of a poisoning case now on trial, where we are told that arsenic enough was found in the stomach to produce death in twenty-four hours, the patient is said to have been treated by arsenic, phosphorus, bryonia, aconite, nux vomica, and muriatic acid,--by a practitioner of what school it may be imagined.
Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest.
On the other hand, our ex cathedra prelections have a strong tendency to run into details which, however interesting they may be to ourselves and a few of our more curious listeners, have nothing in them which will ever be of use to the student as a practitioner.
Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some extent the shape of the lens.
Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some , extent the shape of the lens.
Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal.
Ingleby gives another series of seven eases which occurred to a practitioner in 1836, the first of which was also attributed to his having opened several erysipelatous abscesses a short time previously.
As far as I can tell, the only practitioners in all of Vanguard are the young intelligencer Deveron and myself.
Root Cult itself was comprised largely or perhaps even entirely of veteran devotees and practitioners of this savage, nihilistic, and mettle testing jeu pour-meme.
Miss Lambers, that a long-time practitioner of soul vision is the only person who will be able to recognize the truth and to decide how to go forth.
The employment of podophyllin and leptandrin as substitutes for mercurials has been so successful that they are now used by practitioners of all schools.
Still, the art and craft of the luthier attained its height in Cremona, and most modern practitioners attempt to imitate, not alter, that ideal.
Take then this rank of Comes Archiatrorum, and have the distinguished honour of presiding over so many skilled practitioners and of moderating their disputes.