Practitioner
[præk'tɪʃ(ə)nə] or [præk'tɪʃənɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
(n.) One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(n.) A sly or artful person.
Inputed by Elsa
Definition
n. one who practises or is engaged in the exercise of any profession esp. medicine or law.—General practitioner one who practises in all the branches of medicine and surgery.
Edited by Dwight
Examples
- A doctor's--general practitioner, I perceive, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the interest s of his art the medical practitioner ransacked the resources of organic and inorganic nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Yes;--with our present medical rules and education, one must be satisfied now and then to meet with a fair practitioner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, with reference to placing Mr. Richard with some sufficiently eminent practitioner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A most dangerous and ignorant practitioner, my dear Pitt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The endoscope, for looking into the urethra, and the cystoscope, for looking into the bladder, are other useful instruments of the modern practitioner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Certain sure,' replied Pell; 'but if he'd gone to any irregular practitioner, mind you, I wouldn't have answered for the consequences. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I fancy it's some local practitioner, said the Colonel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Vholes was gratified, as a smaller practitioner striving to keep respectable, to be confirmed in any opinion of his own by such an authority. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- One does not expect it in a practitioner of that kind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sir, that class of practitioners would be swept from the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That cant about cures was never got up by sound practitioners. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Question: But you think that their abolition would damage a class of practitioners? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Country practitioners used to be an irritable species, susceptible on the point of honor; and Mr. Wrench was one of the most irritable among them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We whose ambition it is to be looked upon in the light of respectable practitioners, sir, can but put our shoulders to the wheel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The sharpest practitioners I ever knew, Sir,' observed Lowten. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I wonder how many families are driven to roguery and to ruin by great practitioners in Crawley's way? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Nathaniel