单词 | routinier |
释义 | routiniern.adj. A. n. 1. A medical practitioner who has been trained in various procedures but lacks broader knowledge or experience; one who applies treatments in a rigid, mechanical way. Cf. routineer n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > others applicator1659 preceptor1803 routinier1806 routineer1812 sub-doctor1843 proceduralist1987 tachyiater- 1806 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 2 473 Seminaries should also be instituted, in which routiniers should be educated for the service of the multitude. 1864 Med. Times & Gaz. 8 Oct. 381/1 They were for the most part those who would soon dwindle down to the merest routiniers, ignoble workers in a noble calling. 1871 Amer. Observer Mar. 307 They are especially prone to be routiniers. Pneumonia calls to their mind Aconite and Bryonia; intermittent fever, Arsenic and Quinine; sore throat, Mercurius and Belladonna. 1906 Ohio State Med. Jrnl. 15 July 18/1 It is this individualization which distinguishes the trained physician from the ‘quack’ who is a ‘routinier’ who does not deviate from his scheme, and attempts to apply his stereotyped, castiron practices to all patients alike. 1996 T. H. Broman Transformation of German Acad. Med. iv. 121 The difference between real doctors and routiniers, Hufeland claimed, is that the former combine scientific knowledge with practical experience, whereas the latter have only their craft skills and experience. 2. A person who has only an elementary knowledge of his or her profession, and is therefore unlikely to produce anything innovative or out of the ordinary; (sometimes) spec. a musician, esp. a conductor, who performs in a way that is technically correct but unimaginative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > conductor > uninspiring routinier1970 1826 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 629 The Clergyman must have the whole [tree of knowledge], the Lawyer the whole.., if either of these is to be more than a mere Tradesman and Routinier. 1867 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. 17 457 The middle ranks [of the school] were provided by some of the former teachers, and the lower by young routinists (routiniers) who had never enjoyed a high literary culture. 1890 J. S. Shedlock tr. R. Wagner Lett. to his Dresden Friends 487 It is..insufficient knowledge of the matter, combined with the depravity into which nowadays every routinier falls, after long practice in the ordinary rut of our operas. 1939 Winnipeg Free Press 23 Sept. 33/3 The difference between the performance of a great artist and that of the technically able routinier. 1970 Guardian 1 Jan. 8/2 In the performance of Boris..everything was first-rate with the exception of Boris himself..and the conductor Boris Khaikin, a tired routinier. 1991–2 Opera Q. Winter iv. 116 Possibly more goes on in the earthly inner sanctum of the god Ptha than has previously been divined from the renditions of routiniers. B. adj. 1. Of a person: having the characteristics of a routinier (sense A. 2); disposed to follow a routine; unimaginative. ΚΠ 1809 L. de Tousard Amer. Artillerist's Compan. II. vii. 227 It is calculated for a cannonier merely routinier, who has nothing else to do but to point his gun straight to the object. 1869 Q. Rev. Jan. 77 They are ignorant, they are routinier, they will follow the old bad habits and adhere to the old bad tools. 1910 V. Hunt Wife of Altamont vii. 56 Inspector Whortleberry remained standing, dutiful, patient, routinier as usual, without curiosity, imagination, or perspicacity. 1996 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 7 May (Arts section) 7 All the ingredients supposedly ensuring success with a non-Orthodox American Jewish audience were professionally utilized:..easily digestible Romantic music style; and polished routinier singers. 2. Chiefly Music. Characteristic of a routinier; displaying nothing out of the ordinary; unimaginative; humdrum. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > style of composition grandc1666 romantic1836 routinier1837 parodistic1845 rococo1868 virtuose1873 virtuosic1879 galant1884 polymorphous1890 monothematic1894 rococo1904 impressionistic1908 salon1914 gallant1925 athematic1935 non-thematic1946 minimalistic1947 stochastic1958 progressive1963 minimal1968 post-minimal1971 minimalist1977 1837 G. C. Lewis Let. 15 Nov. (1870) 93 One of the greatest obstacles to financial reform is the routinier prejudices of official persons. 1900 R. Newmarch Tchaikovsky 72 Tchaikovsky was contented to entrust his work to the students,..rather than let it take the chance of being spoilt by the routinier dulness of some theatrical conductor. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 279 Walton's..mature but regrettably consonant Belshazzar's Feast was dismissed, particularly by the older critics, as ‘routinier’, conventional, and unworthy of its place in so selectly revolutionary a festival. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 Feb. 16 Havergal respected the fact that most of the numbers are really song-and-dance routines... Yet these were routines that did not degenerate into anything merely routinier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1806 |
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