sanitariann.adj.
/sanɪˈtɛːrɪən/ A. n.
a. One who studies sanitation; one who is in favour of sanitary reform.
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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > sanitariness > person
sanitarian1859
sanitarist1859
sanitist1882
sanitationist1888
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. Introd. 11 I will go with you and see the chief sewers..and if that is not an inducement to offer to a sanitarian [etc.].
1865 Cornhill Mag. May 602 Energetic and practical ‘sanitarians’ had made successful war upon dirt, overcrowding, and foul air.
1883 Harper's Mag. May 924 A crusade in favor of ‘fresh air’ was fought by the sanitarians.
b. U.S. A public health officer.
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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > sanitariness > sanitary inspector
sanitary inspector1863
sanitarian1946
1946 Richmond (Va.) News 20 Mar. 4/2 A field trip to observe high-temperature, short-time pasteurization was one of the high-lights today of the closing session of the Virginia Association of Milk Sanitarians.
1974 Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 23 Apr. 12/1 J. D. Kirby, chief sanitarian with the health department, said the vaccine is ‘the safest, most reliable yet perfected and is specified by the Public Health Services’.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 23 Oct. 10/2 The boss is Dale Reeves, senior public-health sanitarian and head of the consumer-protection program.
B. adj.
Pertaining to sanitary matters; advocating sanitary reforms.
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the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > conducive to health > sanitary > relating to sanitary reforms
sanitarian1884
1884 Athenæum 5 Apr. 446/2 Its serious interest is rather antiquarian than sanitarian.
1886 J. A. Froude Oceana 275 In some sanitarian salon Macaulay's New Zealander..will exhibit his sketch.
Derivatives
saniˈtarianism n.
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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > sanitariness > belief in
sanitarianism1881
1881 R. N. Boyd Chili 3 The monotonous regularity prescribed by modern sanitarianism is observed.
1891 J. W. Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads VII. 425 At which some of our modern puritanic hypocrites affect to be shocked, resenting it as an outrage on their fastidious Sanitarianism.
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