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prescriptionist|prɪˈskrɪpʃənɪst|
[f. prescription1 + -ist.]
a. One who writes prescriptions. Obs.
b. One who makes up medicines in accordance with prescriptions; a dispenser.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Physick 12 All comprehended in the honourable Tetrarchy of Physicians or Doctors (κατ' ἐξοχὴν, or Præscriptionists), Chirurgians, Apothecaries, and Chymists. 18..Sanitarian XVIII. 427 (Cent. D.) The apparent deterioration was due to the dishonesty of the retail druggist or prescriptionist. 1906Dialect Notes III. 151 (Arkansas) Mr. H. B. Mayes has accepted a position as prescriptionist for James S. Robinson, one of the most prominent druggists of Memphis.
c. = prescriptivist n.
1954Mind LXIII. 258 It would be correct to call him an ethical ‘prescriptionist’. 1964C. Barber Ling. Change Present-Day Eng. i. 8 In fact they become moralists or prescriptionists, intent on telling us how we ought to talk.
Hence preˈscriptionism = prescriptivism 2.
1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 215 Long's expressed dissatisfaction with school grammars..as well as his impatience with common proscriptions like everybody they indicate his rejection of traditional prescriptionism. |