plasticiann.
/plasˈtɪʃn/, U.S. /plæsˈtɪʃ(ə)n/ An expert or specialist in plastic art, plastic surgery, or the use of plastics.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > others
bone-setter?1518
circumciser1535
bronchotomist1670
acupuncturist1839
tenotomist1842
orthopaedist1853
plastic surgeon1863
resectionist1863
cephalotomist1869
amputator1882
brain surgeon1888
tracheotomist1891
neurosurgeon1925
face-lifter1928
plastician1928
psychosurgeon1945
orthopod1960
transplanter1970
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > workers with other materials > [noun] > with plastic materials
plastician1928
laminator1941
thermoformer1972
1928 T. E. Lawrence Let. 16 Apr. (1938) 591 So many plasticians seem to admit to their notice the outside of machinery, and to exclude its purposefulness.
1933 Archit. Rev. 73 266/2 As a complement to the elaborate laboratory researches into the nature of thermoplastic.., there is need of research and experiment directed to the proper development of design... It [sc. Lethaby's Art and Workmanship] should be in the hands of every ‘plastician’.
1934 Punch 26 Dec. 718/2 By marvellous plasticians in mysterious robes arrayed, Faces are most wonderfully and most fearfully remade.
2001 Times (Nexis) 26 May Cragg prefers to refer to himself as a plastician rather than a sculptor.
2002 Daily Tel. 29 June 15 ‘Your road test of the Citroen C3 commented that the plastics were cheap,’ wrote Alan Griffiths, consultant plastician and all-round plastics expert.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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