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Word Meanings - PRACTITIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe. 2. One who does anything customarily or habitually. 3. A sly or artful person. Whitgift. General practitioner. See under

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1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe. 2. One who does anything customarily or habitually. 3. A sly or artful person. Whitgift. General practitioner. See under General, 2.

Related words: (words related to PRACTITIONER)

  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • CRABBER
    One who catches crabs.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • UNDERDELVE
    To delve under.
  • UNDERSTOOD
    imp. & p. p. of Understand.
  • ACTUALIZE
    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
  • UNDERDO
    To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • ACCUSTOMARILY
    Customarily.
  • REENGAGEMENT
    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • TEN-POUNDER
    A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
  • DUNDERHEAD
    A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.

 

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