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Webster 1913 Edition
Practitioner
1.
One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
Crabbe.
2.
One who does anything customarily or habitually.
Webster 1828 Edition
Practitioner
PRACTI'TIONER
,Noun.
1.
One who does any thing customarily or habitually.2.
One that practices sly or dangerous arts.Definition 2024
practitioner
practitioner
English
Noun
practitioner (plural practitioners)
- A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
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- One who does anything customarily or habitually.
- (dated) A sly or artful person.
- John Whitgift
- […] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.
- John Whitgift
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Translations
person who practices a profession or art
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References
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