prescriptionistn.
/prᵻˈskrɪpʃn̩ɪst/, /prᵻˈskrɪpʃənɪst/, U.S. /priˈskrɪpʃ(ə)nəst/, /prəˈskrɪpʃ(ə)nəst/, /pərˈskrɪpʃ(ə)nəst/ 1.
a. A person who writes prescriptions; a physician. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > apothecary or pharmacist > [noun] > prescriber
prescribera1660
prescriptionist1716
1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 12 in Athenæ Britannicæ III All comprehended in the honourable Tetrarchy of Physicians or Doctors (κατ' ἐξοχὴν, or Præscriptionists), Chirurgians, Apothecaries, and Chymists.
1954 Sci. Monthly Apr. 215/2 The ‘good old days’, before Herodotus' time, had their surgeons and prescriptionists.
b. A person who makes up or dispenses medicines in accordance with prescriptions; an assistant to a pharmacist.
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the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > apothecary or pharmacist > [noun] > dispenser
dispenser1858
prescriptionist1906
1864 Harper's Mag. Oct. 681/2 At a drug-store in St. Louis, where whilom I officiated as prescriptionist, an order was brought in..for two bottles of citrate of magnesia.
1906 Dial. Notes 3 151 [Arkansas] Mr. H. B. Mayes has accepted a position as prescriptionist for James S. Robinson, one of the most prominent druggists of Memphis.
1997 Chemist & Druggist (Nexis) 29 Nov. 22 The prescriptionists work to strict protocols and make the pharmacist aware of anything outside their remit.
2. = prescriptivist n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > prescriptivism > prescriptivist
orthologer1831
prescriptionist1844
orthologian1884
prescriptivist1952
1844 Times 24 June 5/1 The discussion in committee indeed has, if anything, damaged the position of the prescriptionists.
1954 Mind 63 258 It would be correct to call him an ethical ‘prescriptionist’.
1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. i. 8 In fact they become moralists or prescriptionists, intent on telling us how we ought to talk.
2003 News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) (Nexis) 23 July a12 I found her perspective of a successful author pretending to be poor and a bunch of social prescriptionists pretending to be mainstream concerned citizens quite refreshing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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