academiciann.

1665 J. Beale Let. 18 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 349 To awaken our Academicians of Cambridge, I would prepare the famous Ecchoe of Hog Magog hills about 3 miles on ye way towards Abingdon.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1413 As for Turin,..you cannot conveniently reside there as an academician.

a1790 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. (1793) VI. iv. 541 He had little success, and found the academicians of Cambridge as ignorant and averse to study as those of Oxford.

1826 Spirit of Times 8 July 142/1 Young academicians venture to get drunk within a few yards of the grave of Newton.

1873 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 3) 34 The ignorance of the popular mind has often represented academicians riding, travelling, etc. in cap and gown.

1911 Metall. & Chem. Engin. Apr. 189/1 The purpose of the present article is to endeavor to explain these general principles briefly from the standpoint of the practical engineer rather than from that of the academician.

1955 Polit. Sci. Q. 70 477 The authors are card-carrying academicians, with Ph.D.'s from Georgetown.

1981 A. J. Reichley Conservatives in Age of Change vi. 114 In 1961 [Henry] Kissinger joined the rush of Harvard academicians to help staff the new Kennedy administration in Washington.

2002 H. Igboanusi Dict. Nigerian Eng. Usage 32 Academicians are poorly remunerated in Nigeria.

1668 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Idea Perfection Painting 110 Nothing else but a natural and free Representation of one of those famous Gymnasiums of Greece, where the Philosophers and all sorts of Academicians [Fr. toute sorte d'Academiciens] us'd to Assemble themselves for their respective studies, and to exercise their learned Talents.

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 144 That Academy is now composed of Ten honorary Academicians, which are chosen Learned and Eminent Gentlemen.

1747 S. Johnson Plan Dict. 5 The academicians of France..rejected terms of science in their first essay.

1748 B. Franklin Let. 17 Nov. in Wks. (1838) VII. 40 If you have the Journal of the French Academicians to Lapland, I should be glad to see it.

1786 tr. F. Blanchet in Tales I. 32 At Amadan was a celebrated academy, the first statute of which ran thus: The academicians are to think much, write little, and, if possible, speak less.

1818 J. Northcote Sir J. Reynolds II. 146 Invective and satire against the principal Academicians, and most pointedly against Sir Joshua.

1847 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 7) ii. xxix. 453 The Academicians described derangements in some of the buildings of Calabria.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 1/3 As an old Academician once said, ‘They [sc. pictures] have got porty by time,’ and of course improved.

1933 Times 22 Apr. 10/6 At a General Assembly of Academicians and Associates held yesterday Mr. Reginald Grenville Eves, painter, and Mr. Arthur Davis, Architect, were elected Associates of the Royal Academy.

1963 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 30 May 1337/1 The Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa,..will be conferred upon Academician Mikhail Pavlovich Alexeyev.

1984 F. Forsyth Fourth Protocol i. vi. 104 Third was Dr Josef Viktorovitch Rogov, also an academician, a physicist by discipline.

2008 J. B. Shank Newton Wars & Beginning of French Enlightenment ii. vi. 376 For Voltaire and du Châtelet his support meant that they had the support, at least privately, of a senior French academician.