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Quotation dates: 1863-1899
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†PRACTICIAN, n. A person who acts or puts into action, a practical man, a doer, an executant as opposed to a theorist. Of Sc. orig., rare in Eng. Also attrib., = practical, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, as in 1863 quot.Sc. 1863 N.B. Daily Mail (9 Sept.):
The eminently adaptive and practician character of the Americans.Sc. 1899 S. Colvin Letters Stevenson I. 12:
He looked . . . with the eye of the poet and artist, and not those of the practician and calculator.
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"Practician n.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 6 Apr 2026 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/practician>
