n. A practitioner; someone who practises a particular profession, especially medicine.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A practitioner.
n. One who practises or performs, in distinction from one who theorizes or speculates.
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n. someone who practices a learned profession
Word Usage
"But Philip, as he frequently said, was preeminently a "practician," wherefore he gently covered the girl with his coat, busied himself with the lantern and, for various reasons, sought to create a general atmosphere of commonplace reality."