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单词 routinier
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routiniern.adj.

Brit. /ruːˈtiːnɪə/, /rʊˈtiːnɪə/, /ruːˈtiːnɪeɪ/, /rʊˈtiːnɪeɪ/, U.S. /ruˈtinɪ(ə)r/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from German. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: German Routinier; French routinier.
Etymology: < German Routinier person who only has elementary knowledge of his profession (1786 or earlier), medical practitioner who lacks deeper knowledge (1799 or earlier; also 1806 in the work reviewed in quot. 1806 at sense A. 1) and its etymon French routinier (adjective) that follows a routine (1761), (noun) person who follows a routine (1789), person who plays music or sings mechanically and without understanding (1845) < routine routine n. + -ier -ier suffix. Compare routineer n.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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