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单词 routinist
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routinistn.adj.

Brit. /ruːˈtiːnɪst/, /rʊˈtiːnɪst/, U.S. /ˈrutn̩əst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: routine n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < routine n. + -ist suffix. Compare earlier routinier n.
A. n.
1. A medical practitioner who applies treatments in a rigid, mechanical way. Cf. routinism n. 1, routinier n. 1. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1811 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 7 343 There may be a multitude of routinists, who continue to apply wine and bark as soon as they hear the word ‘fever’.
1865 W. Strange Restoration of Health i. 3 The scientific practitioner, any one but the mere routinist, will find out what disorder of the natural functions has taken place.
1891 Med. News 25 Apr. 466/1 As is true in all new or uncommon manifestations of disease, better half a dozen cases in the hands of a thinker than a thousand under the monotonous régime of the mere routinist.
1907 Arena Dec. 664/1 The cow-poxer is a reckless routinist who treats all classes of the population precisely alike.
2. A person who acts according to routine; spec. one who adheres to an established or prescribed way of doing something, without recourse to innovation or imagination (frequently depreciative). Also: a person who follows a routine as an aid to organization.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > one who acts by routine
routineer1792
routiner1809
routinist1846
1846 Mechanics' Mag. 20 June 486/1 Such writers are, however, for the most part, mere routinists.
1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 163 The old routinists..give the hides a soaking of ten, twelve and even fifteen months.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) viii. 218 The late Duke of Wellington was a great routinist.
1923 Accountant 25 Aug. 268/1 An Internal Auditor..must not be a mere routinist.
1976 Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 6/5 Those of us who engage in political debate..are increasingly dismissed as ‘conservatists’ and ‘routinists’.
1992 New Republic 13 July 37/2 Everything in the film is slick..but bloodlessly mechanical. Philip Noyce, the director, is a competent routinist.
B. adj.
Characteristic of a routinist; unimaginative; lacking variation, unchanging.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine > acting in a routine way
jog-trot1766
routinist1847
groove-going1880
groovy1882
hung up1945
1847 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 50 397 Medical men will be simpler in their treatment of most diseases, more scientific and less mechanical and routinist in the selection of their remedies.
1883 Littell's Living Age June 753/1 Giotto has painted the likeness of the first half-dozen friars he may have met in the streets near Santa Croce... They are in various degrees dull, sly, routinist, prosaic, pedantic.
1957 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 71 250 The ‘routinist’ economy is a static mechanism to be managed, while the ‘adventurist’ economy is continually being remade along entirely new lines.
1998 H. Rosen Speaking from Memory v. 131 Public memory-making can become so routinist that it scarcely impinges on some individual's memories.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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