archpractitioner
English
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editEtymology
editFrom arch- + practitioner.
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editNoun
editarchpractitioner (plural archpractitioners)
- (rare) A foremost practitioner.
- 1908, Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg, Dares-Studien[1], M. Niemeyer, page 18:
- Um jenes treue Liebe und deren Flatterhaftigkeit zu motivieren, ist er femer zur Umformung des ehrenwerten Diomedes der Ilias "into an archpractitioner of seductive wiles" gezwungen.
- 1996, South Africa Parliament, National Assembly, Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard), Issue 2[3], Government Printer, page 3191:
- As members of the United Nations, would it be in order for us to say that the archpractitioners of apartheid, which was declared a sin against humanity, are criminals?