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Webster 1913 Edition


Practitioner

Prac-ti′tion-er

,
Noun.
[From
Practician
.]
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.
3.
A sly or artful person.
Whitgift.
General practitioner
.
See under
General
, 2.

Webster 1828 Edition


Practitioner

PRACTI'TIONER

,
Noun.
One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly in law or medicine.
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)

  1. 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      The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.
  2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
  3. (dated) A sly or artful person.
    • John Whitgift
      [] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

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