practisant
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English
Etymology
Apparently from practise + -ant; originally modelled on French.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
practisant (plural practisants)
- One who practises something; a practitioner.
- 1904, Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh:
- A Pope who asked you the hour and the date and the place of your birth, drew diagrams on paper, and then told you your secret vices and virtues, was a practisant of arts unholy
- (obsolete) An agent or confederate in treachery.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “practisant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References
- ^ “practisant, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-10-11.
