practisant
English
Etymology
Apparently from practise + -ant; originally modelled on French.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹæktɪzənt/
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) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) An agent or confederate in treachery[2].
- 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.
References
- ^ “practisant, n.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 11 October 2023.
- ^ “practisant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.