arithmetician
English
Etymology
From arithmetic + -ian.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: arith‧me‧tic‧ian
Noun
arithmetician (plural arithmeticians)
- (now rare) One with expertise in arithmetic; a mathematician.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
- [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]
- 1695, William Congreve, Love for Love, London: Jacob Tonson, Act IV, scene i, page 59:[1]
- [...] it’s a Question that would puzzle an Arithmetician, if you should ask him, whether the Bible saves more Souls in Westminster-Abby, or damns more in Westminster-Hall [...]
- 1774, David Garrick, A Christmas Tale, Part II, Scene 1, p. 13,[2]
- Bonoro. What said he?
- Tycho. That he would say but three words and follow me. I heard him say a hundred, and sing a thousand: Lovers are bad arithmeticians.
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Translations
one with expertise in arithmetic
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